Dipsea Demon
The Dipsea Race is a 7.1 mile race from Mill Valley to Stinson Beach that weaves through giant redwoods, wires up a 50-story stairway, and crosses over two mountains. The United States’ second-oldest footrace is grueling, requiring tremendous tenacity for anyone to tackle once, let alone 68 consecutive times. Meet Jack “Dipsea Demon” Kirk, the 96-year-old legend that is showing the world tha... posted on Jan 27 2005, 1,615 reads

Inexhaustible Source
Reflecting on the wisdom of Saint-Exupery. The poet, philosopher and aviator's plane 'disappeared' 60 years ago and was just found April 7, 2004.... posted on Jan 19 2005, 1,349 reads

130,000 And Counting
Christmas is still going strong for 14-year-old Nick Waters. When the boy's church asked what he wanted for Christmas, Nick, who cannot talk and was born with no arms, slowly typed his reply with his feet: Lots of Christmas cards. Ten thousand of them. More than two weeks after Christmas, he has more than 130,000 cards -- and they are still coming.... posted on Jan 13 2005, 1,098 reads

Hotel Rwanda
Dapper, meticulous and obsequious, Paul Rusesabagina is perfectly suited to his job as manager of the elegant Hotel Mille Collines in Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda. Impressed with fine Scotches and adept at flattering his European guests, he would not seem a likely candidate for heroism. Yet in 1994, in the midst of a horrific genocide, in which close to a million people were slaughtered in a... posted on Jan 05 2005, 1,232 reads

Caring Knows No Religion
Rahmatullah is a tired man. He and his nephew have just returned to their mosque after burying an unknown Christian man, identifiable by the black thread with the little cross around the neck. They hadn't forgotten to put a makeshift bamboo cross on the burial mound either. In Cuddalore, the second hardest hit Tamil Nadu town in the recent Tsunami, thousands of stranded Hindu and Christian fishe... posted on Jan 01 2005, 1,040 reads

Cell Phones For Soldiers
For all the billions of dollars being spent on the war in Iraq, 14-year-old Brittany Bergquist is surprised that the U.S. military doesn't do what she and her little brother are doing: helping soldiers phone home free. With $14 from their piggy banks, she and 12-year-old brother Robbie started Cell Phones for Soldiers. In less than nine months, the organization has provided $250,000 worth of pre... posted on Dec 30 2004, 1,110 reads

The Few Who Stayed
Much of what the world remembers about the Rwandan genocide are grim tales of betrayal, of neighbors killing neighbors and the slaughter of innocents. But there are other stories of people who resisted the urge to kill and who risked their lives to save the lives of others. Among them was Carl Wilkens, the only American who refused to be airlifted out of Rwanda with the other Westerners and staye... posted on Dec 24 2004, 1,079 reads

Forty Thousand Dollar Reward
An anonymous tipster who was eligible to receive a $40,000 reward for providing information that led to an arrest in a murder case has turned the money down, asking that it go instead to a charity established in the victim’s name.... posted on Dec 23 2004, 986 reads

Helping Others Come Alive
Each week, Matt Sanford leads disabled students -- many of whom can't walk and don't have any sensations below their midtorso -- through a series of seated yoga poses, teaching them how to bring awareness into parts of their bodies they had thought were lost to them. He is especially qualified to teach these students, as he himself is a paraplegic. Taking the funds from his lawsuit settlement and ... posted on Dec 17 2004, 1,405 reads

237 Kids
The walls and tabletops in Roger and Imogene Gorsuch's home are lined with photos of their children — all 237 of them. After 45 years as foster parents, taking in mostly infants and toddlers of many nationalities and skin colors, the 86-year-old couple has decided to call it quits. "It was nothing spectacular. All we did was just keep children," said Mrs. Gorsuch.... posted on Dec 15 2004, 1,095 reads