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![](images/quickread.gif) Children huddle together for warmth in the sewers of Kiev, trusting no one, but two American women who give hope to the hopeless.... posted on May 23 2002, 852 reads
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![](images/quickread.gif) ... posted on May 19 2002, 774 reads
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![](images/quickread.gif) ... posted on May 12 2002, 772 reads
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![](images/quickread.gif) 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
... posted on Apr 27 2002, 921 reads
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![](images/quickread.gif) 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, 899 reads
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![](images/quickread.gif) ... posted on Apr 22 2002, 690 reads
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![](images/quickread.gif) ... posted on Apr 15 2002, 2,023 reads
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![](images/quickread.gif) 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, 2,128 reads
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![](images/quickread.gif) 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, 857 reads
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![](images/quickread.gif) 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, 2,183 reads
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