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 On Christmas Eve 1983, she suddenly lost her father to bladder cancer. Travelling the world to find answers, she came to this realization of life's purpose: love in action. In 1997, she started a nonprofit organization called Airline Ambassadors. In 1999, she was World Woman of Peace. Meet Nancy Rivard.... posted on Dec 21 2002, 1,035 reads
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 As a child, he was deeply affected by an encounter with famine victims. Now a Nobel prize winner, he has spent a lifetime fighting poverty with analysis rather than activism. Meet Amartya Sen, known in his native India as the Mother Teresa of economics.... posted on Dec 06 2002, 1,550 reads
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 The bullets used to kill and maim students at Columbine High School were purchased at K-mart as easily as a pack of gum. Filmmaker, Michael Moore, took two of these students - one paralyzed, in a wheelchair, and one with a bullet still lodged near his heart - to the K-mart headquarters to show them firsthand the effect of their bullets. What was K-mart's reaction? You'll just have to see Michae... posted on Nov 01 2002, 680 reads
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 Average American is exposed to 254 commercial every day, up nearly 25 percent from since mid-70s. (Source: Media Dynamics, NY)... posted on Oct 18 2002, 677 reads
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 An envoy of the exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, has arrived in Tibet. It is thought to be the first time in 20 years that such a visit has taken place.
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 Researchers have shown how emotions, such as fear, travel along separate paths through the brain and are more likely to interfere with a person's efforts to focus than simple distractions.
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 In U.K., NetValue reported that there were more emails sent than letters.... posted on May 14 2002, 643 reads
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