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Mary Novotny Jeffries advocates for amputees
Mary Novotny Jeffries was 11 when she lost her right leg, from the hip down, to bone cancer. When she returned to the home she shared with her parents and eight siblings on Chicago's South Side, everything — and nothing — had changed. "I...
Tags: Education, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Conservation, Orthopedic Surgery, Northwestern University
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Veteran honored at White House for volunteer work at home
Brian Buhman, a 30-year-old Quakertown resident, was honored at the White House last month for his work as a volunteer state coordinator of Team Rubicon USA, a nonprofit disaster response service comprised of U.S. military veterans. Buhman, who served...Tags: FEMA, Coopersburg, U.S. Military, Dominican Republic, Human Interest
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School helps give hunger relief at home, abroad
Five hundred bags of groceries, and 50,000 prepared meals later, one local school made a dent in world hunger. North Broward Preparatory School sponsored two activities aimed at helping those less fortunate by providing food and other everyday...Tags: Broward County, Education, Teaching and Learning, Students, Haiti
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President George W. Bush quiz: 10 questions on No. 43
It’s been four years since President George W. Bush left the White House, with the former commander in chief reentering the public eye with the dedication of his presidential library in Dallas on Thursday. Bush’s time as a former president...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Wars and Interventions, White House
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Amy Wilentz on her book and a passion for Haiti [video]
Before her panel at the L.A. Times Festival of Book, journalist and author Amy Wilentz dropped in at our video booth to talk about how she came to write her latest book, "Farewell, Fred Voodoo." Written after Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake, this...
Tags: Google+, Truman Capote, Haiti
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RPT-Obama celebrates young inventors at White House science fair
Reuters(Repeats for wider subscribers) By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama hopped on a mountain bike that was mounted on blocks and pedaled away, taking part in a science experiment on how to filter unsafe drinking...Tags: Pancreatic Cancer, Washington, DC, Invention and Innovation, Barack Obama, Scientific Invention
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Head: Oakland Park students head to White House to showcase invention to President Obama
Two students from Oakland Park’s Northeast High traveled to the third annual White House Science Fair on Monday to showcase their Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam project to President Obama. According to a news release, the students were among...
Tags: Invention and Innovation, Students, University of Florida, Scientific Invention, Financial Aid
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Rachel Patron: If you want to be bored, just tune in the news shows
We in the print media, temporarily under siege — will not be castigated in this article. Lets concentrate on the medium watched by most Americans: cable and network news. Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Florida senator Marco Rubio was...Tags: Meet the Press (tv program), Al Sharpton, CNN (tv network), NBC (tv network), Immigration
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Internet connected loved ones after Boston bombings
With cellular service in Boston jammed in the aftermath of the marathon explosions this week, many people were left scrambling for ways to let loved ones know they were safe and to search for information on family and friends. Social networks and...
Tags: Social Media, American Red Cross, Apple Inc., Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Skype
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'Girl Rising': Documentary's message obvious and important ★★ 1/2
From Sierra Leone, from Peru, from Nepal and elsewhere, the nine lives at the heart of "Girl Rising" are impossible to ignore. This consciousness-raising documentary from filmmaker Richard E. Robbins risks making the harsh conditions these girls have...
Tags: Kerry Washington, Movies, Nepal, Entertainment
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Our View: 7.2 anniversary reminds us to be ready
April 4 seemed to sneak up on us this year. On that day three years ago many of us were in the midst of Easter Sunday celebrations, or in post-Easter luncheon slumber, when the earth started moving, and then it really shook. Fragile knick-knacks...Tags: Easter, House Building
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South Windsor Haiti School
South Windsor High SchoolHaiti is one of the poorest countries in the world. In 2010, about 88% of their rural population was at poverty level after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck. Hundreds of thousands were killed and, as a result of the tragedy, people from all over the...Tags: Natural Disasters, Literature, French Literature, Haiti, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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