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A Bagel Shop Manager Noticed a Stroke Survivor Struggling to order. His Response Moved Her Son to tears. Everyday Heroes
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A Bagel Shop Manager Noticed a Stroke Survivor Struggling to order. His Response Moved Her Son to tears.

When Chris Leavitt brought his mother to a New Jersey bagel shop on her 60th birthday-six months after a stroke left her walking with a cane and struggling to speak-he worried about the difficulty of ordering, the noise, the watching eyes. Then manager Chris Hansen came around...

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Germany’s Coal Mines Are Now Europe’s Largest Lake District | the Optimist Daily Environment
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Germany’s Coal Mines Are Now Europe’s Largest Lake District | the Optimist Daily

Where coal once gouged craters 200 feet deep into eastern Germany, engineers spent three decades doing something that...

Why Millions of Adorable Bees Are Emerging From This Cemetery | Grist Environment
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Why Millions of Adorable Bees Are Emerging From This Cemetery | Grist

Beneath the tombstones of an Ithaca, New York cemetery, up to 8 million ground-nesting bees have built one of the...

Blind Lioness Lived to an Old Age Protected by Her Daughters | Ogn Daily Inspiration
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Blind Lioness Lived to an Old Age Protected by Her Daughters | Ogn Daily

In the wild, where survival depends on strength, a blind lioness named Josie lived to 18 -- three years beyond the...

Jasmit Singh Arora’s ‘Gutli Mission’ Shows How Citizens Can Turn Mango Seeds Into Trees Across India Environment
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Jasmit Singh Arora’s ‘Gutli Mission’ Shows How Citizens Can Turn Mango Seeds Into Trees Across India

Jasmit Singh Arora walks through Kolkata collecting what others discard -- mango seeds that he transforms into...

She Thought the Waiter Was Just Bringing a Birthday dessert. What He Said When He Relit the Candles Made Her... Everyday Heroes
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She Thought the Waiter Was Just Bringing a Birthday dessert. What He Said When He Relit the Candles Made Her...

Jada Jones thought a waiter was just being kind when he brought out birthday dessert. But when Phae'l, a Jamaican...

Hero principal crowned Prom King After School Shooting Everyday Heroes
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Hero principal crowned Prom King After School Shooting

When Kirk Moore tackled a gunman in the lobby of his Oklahoma high school, stopping what could have been a mass...