Harvard-bound teen graduates HS, starts fund for homeless kids
- Making a Positive Difference
- June 9, 2012
Dawn Loggins – the Harvard-bound N.C. high school student who was abandoned by her parents and doubled as the school's janitor – has graduated and set up a fund to help other homeless kids. Dawn spent much of high school homeless and served as a school custodian both before and after classes. She graduated June
READ MOREThe Gas Station of the Future Just Opened
- Environmental Well-Being
- June 9, 2012
Last month, Propel Fuels opened the country’s first station where drivers can pump gasoline, ethanol, and biodiesel; cyclists can get tune-ups; and commuters can find public transit schedules. Bloomberg Businessweek, 6/5/2012
READ MORE“Age is just a number”: Gillian Taylforth shares her tips for looking fit and fabulous at 56
- Celebrity HealthStyles
- June 9, 2012
Mirror Online, 6/6/2012
READ MOREN.J., Other States Turn Focus to Pets in Fight Against Distracted Driving
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- June 9, 2012
Keeping your dog on your lap while driving is a serious distraction; not having your dog strapped in means that during a crash, the animal could become a flying missile, going right through the windshield. ABC News, 6/6/2012
READ MOREMultiple CT scans in kids triples cancer risk, but researchers caution overall risk low
- Home & Family
- June 9, 2012
CBS News, 6/7/2012
READ MORERevenge of the Nerds: Tech Firms Scour College Campuses for Talent
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- June 9, 2012
You don't have to be a star athlete to be recruited and courted on campus these days. Today, outstanding computer science majors are being enticed by tech companies to come on board even before they graduate. Companies are wooing these top college students with offers of equity, high salaries and free food. The Wall Street
READ MOREBehind One Hospital’s Fight Against Deadly Infection
- Health & Healing
- June 9, 2012
Marita Nash, environmental services director at Hunterdon Medical Center, and her colleague Kathy Roye-Horn, Hunterdon's infection-prevention director, are on the front lines of one of the most critical battles in health care- keeping virulent hospital infections at bay. Their New Jersey-based hospital cut its rates of deadly infections and has now launched a national program
READ MOREMore Advanced Therapies Are Being Aimed at Cancer
- Health & Healing
- June 6, 2012
At a conference of more than 30,000 cancer specialists, scientists are reporting new tactics to spur the immune system to attack a broad range of cancers, new drugs that attack the disease while sparing healthy cells, and new ways to tell which patients will benefit from which drugs. ABC News, 6/4/2012
READ MORE‘Smash Your Food’ iPad game lets kids virtually pulverize food to learn about nutrition
- Home & Family
- May 30, 2012
NY Daily News, 5/30/2012
READ MORENBC News Heads to the Theater with Legendary Broadway Octogenarians Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones and Joel Grey
- Entertainment, Books & Humor
- May 30, 2012
At a time in life when most people are slowing down (at 80-years-old and over), these famous actors of stage and screen are still going strong, performing eight Broadway shows a week. When NBC interviewed them, Lansbury and Jones couldn't help cracking each other up as they chatted about their love of taking the stage
READ MOREGrey: ‘80’s good’
- Celebrity HealthStyles
- May 30, 2012
Actor Joel Grey, still performing on Broadway and vibrant as ever at the age of 80, says that he doesn't know what retirement is. NBC News, 5/24/2012
READ MOREWhat Couples Want to Know But Are Too Shy to Ask
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- May 30, 2012
Read on for tips on how to talk to your spouse about improving your sex life, particularly when you're not satisfied or when problems arise. The Wall Street Journal, 5/29/2012
READ MORE‘Purple Heart Homes’ For Wounded Vets
- Making a Positive Difference
- May 30, 2012
Two veterans build modified houses for war heroes with disabilities, saying "it's up to the community to take ownership of the people who go to fight and die for us." ABC News, 5/28/2012
READ MOREID Thieves Loot Tax Checks, Filing Early and Often
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- May 29, 2012
Identity theft tax fraud has become a huge problem. The Treasury inspector general for tax administration told congress that in 2010, 940,000 fraudulent returns were filed by identity thieves. Those refunds would have added up to 6.5 billion dollars, and he said there could have been another 1.5 million returns they didn't catch, with potential
READ MORETinkerers Unite! How Parents Enable Kids’ Creativity
- Home & Family
- May 26, 2012
Parents encourage creativity in kids by helping them tinker. But kids, as they get older, spend more time with videogames, cell phones and computers and less time tinkering. Now, a growing number of like-minded parents are fighting back by encouraging unstructured, hands-on creativity. The Wall Street Journal, 5/24/2012
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