Locks of Love
Sometimes it's hard to find a way to help. But since Dominic Bizak was already taking the abuse for his long hair, it wasn't too tough for the 11 year old to decide to grow his hair for 20 months. The hair, then, is donated to a group that provides free wigs to children who, for various reasons, have suffered hair loss.... posted on Jul 06 2004, 863 reads

Nothing is Missing
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On the highway of Life
When they learned how AAA, the roadside assistance service, spent much of their muscle lobbying against public transportation, two entrepeneurs took a bold step and started their own environmentally-friendly service.... posted on Jul 03 2004, 989 reads

A Child Poet
Mattie Stepanek, the child poet whose inspirational verse made him a best-selling writer and a prominent voice for muscular dystrophy sufferers, died Tuesday of a rare form of the disease. He was 13. In his short life, the tireless Stepanek wrote five volumes of poetry that sold millions of copies. Three of the volumes reached the New York Times' best-seller list. Former President Jimmy Carter j... posted on Jul 01 2004, 1,317 reads

Participant Productions
Everybody dreams of being in the movies. Jeff Skoll dreams of making them. The former eBay president, now a billionaire, is starting a company that will fund "socially relevant, commercially viable" feature films along the lines of 'Gandhi' or 'Erin Brockovich.' Skoll's Participant Productions plans to make six movies every year - budgeted at $20 million each -- with a mission to change the worl... posted on Jun 24 2004, 1,042 reads

Like Water For Profit
Rudolph Amenga-Atego won the Goldman Prize for, as Hillary Lindsay puts it, "his struggle to secure safe and affordable drinking water for the people of Ghana," a West African country that subsidizes the cost of water for its poor communities. But, like most developing countries, Ghana owes plenty of money to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and was forced to raise water rates b... posted on Jun 23 2004, 1,233 reads

When Life Gives You Lemons...
Eight-year-old Alexandra Scott, in a battle against malignant tumors, wants to raise $1 million for cancer research. And it looks like she just might do it, one lemonade stand at a time.
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Spark in a Haystack
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No Sick Days
Forty years at any job is a feat. Forty years as a police officer in New York City is remarkable. Forty years without ever taking a sick day, unbelievable but true. When asked why, 62-year-old Sgt. Edmund Keane says, "It's a great opportunity to serve people."... posted on Jun 11 2004, 944 reads

Rolling For Peace
"Just like a baby rolls on a mother's lap, similarly this man rolls on the streets. So if he can do this, what is it that prevents others from loving each other?" Barreling down a sizzling-hot road, in a cloud of diesel fumes and dust, Ludkan Baba is on a serious roll. LA Times reports that this renunciate has rolled thousands of miles and millions of rounds over the last 19 years, surviving on ... posted on Jun 08 2004, 1,140 reads