A tidy father. A messy bedroom. And a determined teenage daughter. These ingredients spawned a grass-roots charity run by a 17-year-old girl who is donating 400 backpacks stuffed with notebooks, Pokémon folders and pencil boxes to needy kids. Winnie Kao's 'Packs of Love' began in spring 2002 when her father lectured her about the mounds of school supplies cluttering her room and about how privil... posted on Sep 09 2003, 984 reads

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When MIT announced to the world in April 2001 that it would be posting the content of some 2,000 classes on the Web - dubbed OpenCourseWare - the academic world was shocked by MIT's audacity ... and skeptical of the experiment. No institution of higher learning had ever proposed anything as revolutionary, or as daunting. MIT would make everything, from video lectures and class notes to tests and ... posted on Sep 06 2003, 1,320 reads

He Gave His Life for Others
He climbed aboard boxcars filled with people and would handout scores of protective passes, then jump from the train and demand that those with Swedish "protection" be allowed off the trains. He built safe houses to keep them away from danger. He would leverage his Swedish diplomat status to alter the course of humanity. In 1944, Raoul Wallenberg saved tens of thousands of Jews in Hungary when ... posted on Sep 05 2003, 1,006 reads

The average person in the United States takes four car trips per day. Nearly half are for shopping or running errands. Americans take 1.1 billion trips daily, averaging 40 miles per person.... posted on Sep 04 2003, 893 reads

When 13 year old Terik Daley began working on a science project for a homework assignment, he had no idea it would take up almost all of his free time. Now, he's a semifinalist in 2003 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge. His motivation? Witnessing the aftermath of the Gujarat (India) earthquake in 2001!... posted on Sep 03 2003, 2,136 reads

One man took his as a souvenir of his honeymoon, another person took one to dry the dog. Yet another ended up being used as a makeshift costume for a child's school play. However they got used, Holiday Inn loses 500,000 towels every year from its 2,638 hotels. So what are they doing about it? They declared their first ever Towel Amnesty Day -- for all who share their story of what they did wit... posted on Sep 02 2003, 910 reads

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