Can ordinary people solve world problems like water pollution? Maybe so – these three teenagers have found a way to change dirty water into clean water.... posted on Jan 23 2003, 1,065 reads

Are all athletes insensitive and overpaid? Not if you're looking at Delvar Barrett. He's a big -- big-hearted too -- college basketball player who brought his nearly blind mother to college with him, so he could take care of her.... posted on Jan 22 2003, 1,458 reads

Hundreds of thousands around the globe rallied for peace this past weekend. In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I have a Dream" speech was attended by over 200,000 people.... posted on Jan 21 2003, 1,347 reads

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An AIDS Activist with AIDS refuses Aid
Zackie Achmat, a prominent South African AIDS activist, found out he was HIV positive in 1990. In 1997 he developed AIDS. Although he can afford antiretroviral medications in 1998 he vowed to not take any medications until every single person in South Africa had access to the same drugs. ... posted on Jan 18 2003, 1,063 reads

One in five Americans who die each year, die from tobacco use; the annual American death toll attributed to tobacco use is about 430,700. The total economic cost of tobacco is 97.2 billion dollars per year, or about 363.00 dollars per American citizen. (Source:
American Lung Association)... posted on Jan 17 2003, 926 reads

A vast, but previously unknown structure has been discovered around the edges of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Astronomers believe it could hold clues as to how the Milky Way and other galaxies evolved.... posted on Jan 16 2003, 987 reads

His brother in law, Pete, smuggled 500 pounds of marijuana from Jamaica but Bo refused. Pete went to jail. Bo went to an ashram. They were both wearing white, woke up at five every morning, worked all day and didn't get paid. Similar circumstances, but Pete hated life and Bo loved it. Bo Lozoff had an epiphany -- prison time can be an opportunity for spiritual growth, that the cell can be an ... posted on Jan 15 2003, 1,749 reads

In 1996, Debi Farris saw a TV report about a newborn left in a duffel bag by a freeway -- dead. Deeply moved, she bought some space at a local cemetery and started Garden of Angels, to bury children -- freeway babies, dumpster babies, babies discarded in canals, on front lawns. As always, she'll wrap each in his or her own blanket, hold them in her arms, bestow names, arrange for burial. Hundred... posted on Jan 14 2003, 887 reads