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Sport Chalet and Soles4Souls pair up
Sport Chalet is teaming up with Soles4Souls for the second time in two years to provide shoes to the victims of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami.
The pair first partnered up in January 2010 to collect shoes for the victims of the Haiti earthquake....Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Disasters, Tsunamis, Natural Disasters
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Home movies from space
For a space traveler's view of remarkable events that unfolded this past year in and around the solar system, look no further than the JPL website, where a series of digital videos offers spectacular images of Earth, Mars and the far corners of our...Tags: Santa Maria, Disasters and Accidents, Wildfires, Science and Technology, Disasters
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Plantation resident helps save lives
Heidi O'Mara has seen it all. From the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in Alabama to the wreckage left from Superstorm Sandy in New Jersey, the 64-year-old Plantation resident has made it her mission to help everyone she possibly can. O'Mara volunteers...Tags: Hurricane Katrina (2005), American Red Cross, Abusive Behavior, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Hurricanes
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Mary Novotny Jeffries advocates for amputees
Mary Novotny Jeffries was 11 when she lost her right leg, from the hip down, to bone cancer. When she returned to the home she shared with her parents and eight siblings on Chicago's South Side, everything — and nothing — had changed. "I...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Colleges and Universities, University of Illinois at Chicago, Environmental Issues, Education
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Veteran honored at White House for volunteer work at home
Brian Buhman, a 30-year-old Quakertown resident, was honored at the White House last month for his work as a volunteer state coordinator of Team Rubicon USA, a nonprofit disaster response service comprised of U.S. military veterans. Buhman, who served...Tags: East Greenville, Coopersburg, U.S. Military, Hurricanes, FEMA
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President George W. Bush quiz: 10 questions on No. 43
It’s been four years since President George W. Bush left the White House, with the former commander in chief reentering the public eye with the dedication of his presidential library in Dallas on Thursday. Bush’s time as a former president...
Tags: White House, Wars and Interventions, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Amy Wilentz on her book and a passion for Haiti [video]
Before her panel at the L.A. Times Festival of Book, journalist and author Amy Wilentz dropped in at our video booth to talk about how she came to write her latest book, "Farewell, Fred Voodoo." Written after Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake, this...
Tags: Google+, Haiti, Truman Capote
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School helps give hunger relief at home, abroad
Five hundred bags of groceries, and 50,000 prepared meals later, one local school made a dent in world hunger. North Broward Preparatory School sponsored two activities aimed at helping those less fortunate by providing food and other everyday...Tags: Education, Students, Teaching and Learning, Broward County, Haiti
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Rachel Patron: If you want to be bored, just tune in the news shows
We in the print media, temporarily under siege — will not be castigated in this article. Lets concentrate on the medium watched by most Americans: cable and network news. Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Florida senator Marco Rubio was...Tags: Television Industry, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Entertainment Events, Entertainment, Sports
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Internet connected loved ones after Boston bombings
With cellular service in Boston jammed in the aftermath of the marathon explosions this week, many people were left scrambling for ways to let loved ones know they were safe and to search for information on family and friends. Social networks and...
Tags: American Red Cross, Sports, Apple Inc., Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Twitter, Inc.
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'Girl Rising': Documentary's message obvious and important ★★ 1/2
From Sierra Leone, from Peru, from Nepal and elsewhere, the nine lives at the heart of "Girl Rising" are impossible to ignore. This consciousness-raising documentary from filmmaker Richard E. Robbins risks making the harsh conditions these girls have...
Tags: Movies, Entertainment, Kerry Washington, Nepal
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Our View: 7.2 anniversary reminds us to be ready
April 4 seemed to sneak up on us this year. On that day three years ago many of us were in the midst of Easter Sunday celebrations, or in post-Easter luncheon slumber, when the earth started moving, and then it really shook. Fragile knick-knacks...Tags: House Building, Easter
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