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Every person in the United States receives junk mail that represents the equivalent of one and a half trees a year. Source: Environmental Systems of America
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As a child in Singapore, William Tan had to be carried around on someone's back. Having lost his legs to polio, and too poor to afford a wheelchair, he built up a determination to conquer this disease. Now, a student at Harvard, William is in a race to save children from polio.... posted on Apr 26 2002, 799 reads

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A Canadian couple is spending their honeymoon -- make that honeymoons -- traveling around the world, getting married. Kiran Pal and Geoff Pross have been through eight wedding ceremonies at last count, including Aboriginal nuptials in Australia, a Shinto ceremony in Japan, a Buddhist wedding in Thailand, and a Celtic wedding feast in Ireland. They've chronicled their 11-month journey on a Web s... posted on Mar 27 2002, 2,012 reads

Ryan listened as his teacher explained that villagers in Uganda were drinking bad water and could have a well with clean, running water for only seventy dollars. As a six year old, this was a lot of money, but he was determined and not only raised the seventy, but half a million and still growing. ... posted on Mar 19 2002, 795 reads

The world of nature is so small and interdependent that a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon rainforest can generate a violent storm on the other side of the earth. Physicists call this the "Butterfly Effect."... posted on Mar 15 2002, 2,076 reads

While the most popular 50 websites are commercial, most of the 3 billion web pages in the world are not. Why? Kevin Kelly's, in Wall Street Journal's article on "The Web Runs on Love, Not Greed" says it's because people love to share.... posted on Mar 14 2002, 2,052 reads

More than 3,500 people from 100 countries have joined an online Unity Chain that offers people worldwide the opportunity to share their personal messages of hope and optimism, and add themselves to a virtual human chain that will encircle the globe. For each person who joins the chain, Coca-Cola will donate a dollar to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, up to 100,000.... posted on Mar 13 2002, 972 reads