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Good for Your Own Well-Being?
What are you doing to Make a Positive
DIFFERENCE in the lives of others?
A 12-year-old from Newtown, CT decided to stop playing violent video games after the tragedy in his town. Now he's trying to get other young people to follow his example by throwing away their violent video games at a dump site. The boy's parents helped him to set up a Facebook group called "Played Out"
READ MOREIn a time when families are struggling to make giving part of their budget, with donations still 11 percent below pre-recession rates, childrens' generosity is more heartening than ever before. Here are some ways for kids to give back — with or without money — at every age. The Huffington Post, 12/18/2012
READ MOREOnce the butt of jokes, college athletes who study kinesiology are now landing high-paying jobs. The commercial and academic value of exercise studies is dramatically increasing. The Wall Street Journal, 12/20/2012
READ MOREResearchers at John Hopkins University have found that within the past 20 years, there were close to 10,000 reported instances when a foreign object was left in a patient, the wrong surgery was performed, or the surgery was performed on the wrong patient or wrong part of the body. These surgeries cost the healthcare industry
READ MORETwitter hashtags #26Acts and #20Acts began as ways to encourage acts of kindness after the horrific shootings in Newtown, Conn., and multiplied into a movement of kindness. Ann Curry's inspiration for #26Acts of Kindness dates back to an experience she had while reporting on the genocide in Darfur in 2007, and the joy that giving Polaroid pictures
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