Infinite Hugs
A 50 year old woman travels the world and gives thousands of hugs everyday! She is not only the world record holder for hugs but also is known as the "hugging saint" who has dedicated her whole life to service. Meet Ammachi.... posted on Jun 14 2003, 943 reads

Bringing Schools to the Children
One Sunday morning with two cloth bags "full of fun and magic for children" and an innovative idea, Inderjit Khurana stepped onto the railway platform and began teaching. The idea was extremely simple and remarkably effective: rather than working to get children into the schools, why not just bring the school to them? Within a few months, the 'platform school,' as it became known, had over 100 stu... posted on Jun 12 2003, 917 reads

Richmond High student Gustava Bennett-Burrus doesn't do the latest teen dance, the "shakey," and she doesn't carry a backpack with speakers blaring Eminem like the cool kids, but give her a break -- she's 97. It's been nearly nine decades since she dropped out of the fourth grade in a one-room school house in Boley, Okla., to pick cotton on her family's sharecrop farm. She's wished for a high sch... posted on Jun 11 2003, 597 reads

Since September, Emily Dubois has been preoccupied with pennies. Pennies in empty milk jugs. Pennies in water bottles. Hundreds of thousands of pennies filling her closet. Yet the Palo Alto High School junior still wants more. Emily is one-third of the way to her goal of collecting one penny for each of the 1.5 million children who some sources estimate died in the Holocaust. ... posted on Jun 10 2003, 623 reads

Speeding Up Mt. Everest
When Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa set out this past spring to set an Everest speed ascent record, little did anyone know he would not only break the late Babu Chirri Sherpa’s Everest speed ascent record of 16 hrs 56, but shatter it altogether with a time of 10 hrs 56 min and 46 sec – 6 hours faster than Babu’s seemingly unbeatable record.... posted on Jun 07 2003, 758 reads

It's not everyday that someone on death row gets nominated for Nobel Peace Prize. But it happened to Tookie. When Tookie was 16, he founded one of the most notorious gangs in the history of the country -- Crips. At 26, he was convicted for four murders and placed on death row. But after two years there, in solitary confinement, Tookie deeply regretted his past; today, he works diligently from ... posted on May 29 2003, 933 reads

A Priceless Wedding
The musicians were playing, the 2,000 guests were dining, the priest was preparing the ceremony and the bride was dressed in red, her hands and feet festively painted with henna. Then, under the wedding tent, the groom's family asked for more dowry. 25,000 dollars more. So Nisha Sharma, the bride, picks up her cell phone, calls the cops and lands her groom in jail. She is being hailed internati... posted on May 20 2003, 1,883 reads

Peace through 'Guru Currency'
If you're ever in the Netherlands, you can officially use 'guru currency'. The group founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, famous for being a spritual teacher to Beatles, has issued a currency named after an Indian diety -- "raam" -- that they hope will alleviate poverty and create world peace.... posted on May 15 2003, 1,639 reads

She started surfing at the age of 4. By 14, Rell Sun was competing in meets and soon became a pioneer of women's surfing. Very active in her community of Oahu and an advocate of great causes, she thought of her home as "paradise on earth" despite its many problems. ABC recently named her Hawaii's most influential women of the 20th century. Rell Sun passed away of breast cancer at 47.... posted on May 13 2003, 723 reads

In the summer of 1952 Mildred Norman, traveling alone, hiked the entire length of the 2050 mile-long Appalachian Trail. She was the first woman to accomplish this feat. It turned out to be a practice run. From 1953 until 1981, she walked more than 25,000 miles across the United States , bearing the simplest of messages: this is the way of peace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, a... posted on May 06 2003, 1,070 reads