Two Buddhist monks, Rev. Heng Sure and Marty Verhoeven, took a pilgrimage of about 800 miles, except that after every three steps they took one full bow to the ground wishing joy for all beings. Read some excerpts from their journals online:... posted on Dec 11 2001, 510 reads

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What can kids do? Find out what kids across the country are doing to help their communities:... posted on Dec 08 2001, 817 reads

In 1974, there was only one hospice program in the entire United States. Today, there are more than 2,800. Nearly 400,000 people received hospice care in 1995, when about one of every seven deaths in America was in a hospice setting.... posted on Dec 07 2001, 470 reads

What goes up must come down, but doing so took two years for Julia Butterfly Hill. She climbed up a thousand-year-old tree in Stafford, California and lived there for 738 days to protest the destruction of old growth forests and to keep the chainsaws away from the magnificent redwood she nicknamed Luna.... posted on Dec 06 2001, 506 reads

Wavy Gravy is the only clown that has a Ben & Jerry's ice-cream named after him. Wavy brings joy into the life of homeless kids by doing a clown camp:... posted on Dec 05 2001, 455 reads

Forbes magazine has estimated that 225 individuals, the richest in the world, have a combined wealth of more than $1 trillion, a figure that approaches the combined annual income of the poorest one half of humanity.... posted on Dec 04 2001, 253 reads

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