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Operation Paws0
- Making a Positive Difference
- March 29, 2012
Christina Beckles, an ex-Golden Gloves boxing champion, now spends her time and money saving abandoned and abused dogs from a beach in Puerto Rico. New York Times, 3/24/2012
READ MOREOne Tough Cookie0
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- August 16, 2013
Kathleen King started baking and selling her own cookies when she was just 11-years-old, which led her to start her own baking company and even purchase the building it was housed in by the age of 23.
READ MOREOne Solution to Long-Term Unemployment0
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- February 28, 2013
Joe Carbone, CEO of The Workplace, a workforce development program in Connecticut, thinks he's found a solution for the six million Americans– many of them older– who've been out of work so long that they've exhausted their unemployment benefits, depleted their savings, and now face job discrimination. Under Carbone's leadership, The Workplace developed "Platform to
READ MOREOne in four adolescents meet physical-activity guidelines0
- Health & Healing
- January 14, 2014
Is your teen a couch potato? Only 25% of those aged 12-14 are getting a minimum of 60 minutes of exercise per day, new research shows. The problem is that we take our attitude toward fitness into adulthood, so it’s important to start when you’re young. Tala Fakhouri, an epidemiologist with the National Center
READ MOREOne Death Provides New Life for Many0
- What I Can Do
- May 18, 2011
Julio Garcia's widow agreed to donate his organs. A year later, five of the recipients gathered to thank the family personally, a rarity in such an emotional process. For information on becoming an organ donor: Donate Life America, donatelife.net; 701 East Byrd Street, 16th Floor, Richmond, VA 23219; (804) 377-3580. The New York Times, 5/16/2011
READ MOREOn the Road: The lost art of thank you notes0
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- December 31, 2011
As part of the continuing series "On the Road," Steve Hartman reports on how putting pen to paper and sending thank you notes can improve one's personal life. CBS News, 12/30/2011
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