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Long-Lost Love Letter Restores Glow in 1959 Chevy0
- Making a Positive Difference
- February 23, 2014
Dean Sparks purchased a beat-up 1959 Chevy in a Nebraska auction intending to fix it up, but while working on the car he found something unexpected inside. It was a love letter from 1963 written by a young woman named Beverly Barber to her love, Ronnie Waterbury. With the help of social media, Sparks was able to find out that the couple had a son, Wade, and contacted him.
READ MORELoneliness, living alone may lead to a shorter lifespan0
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- June 27, 2012
CBS News, 6/19/2012
READ MORELollapalooza Aims to Become More Green0
- Environmental Well-Being
- August 8, 2011
With over 80,000 people attending Chicago’s most anticipated music festival, concert organizers are hoping to reduce waste. City officials think the festival can do better to improve their “green” efforts but it’s a collaborative effort that involves concert goers and the event’s organizers. The Chicago Tribune, 8/5/2011
READ MORELofty ambitions: why green roofs are the future of urban gardening0
- Environmental Well-Being
- March 5, 2012
Whether you’re familiar with the concept or not, green roofs are becoming increasingly common, as people realize the advantages of having a garden on top of, not next to, their houses. For the uninitiated, a green roof is most simply described as being a living layer of grasses, shrugs, and mosses, planted over a waterproof
READ MORELocally grown? It all depends on how you define it0
- Green Products
- April 21, 2011
We want to be healthy, so we choose to eat healthy foods. We think we’re blessed to have so many choices of produce that are marked “organic” or “local.” But wait… could this be a marketing ploy aimed right at us? The consumer? What does “local” even mean? The answer is this: there is no
READ MORELiving with mom? Bradley Cooper can relate0
- Celebrity HealthStyles
- April 22, 2013
Bradley Cooper and his mother live together to support each other during a time of great grief. The actor explains, "right now, two years after my father's death, this is where we are. My family is very close, and my dad dying was brutal for all of us. It was a schism, and its aftershock
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