‘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
READ MORETask force: PSA prostate cancer screening tests do more harm than good
- Health & Healing
- May 26, 2012
A widely followed federal advisory panel recommended on Monday that healthy men should not get screened for prostate cancer (with a common blood test). The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force reviewed studies showing that the test, widely used for almost 20 years, could lead to unnecessary cancer treatments. ABC News, 5/22/2012
READ MOREBattle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food
- Environmental Well-Being
- May 26, 2012
For more than a decade, almost all processed foods in the United States have contained ingredients from plants whose DNA was manipulated in a laboratory. Regulators and many scientists say these pose no danger. But as Americans ask more pointed questions about what they are eating, popular suspicions about the health and environmental effects of
READ MOREStudy: 9/11 WTC dust sickened residents years later
- Environmental Well-Being
- May 24, 2012
A study blames long-term sickness on 9/11 dust from the World Trade Center. "It will also be important to use the results to improve guidance about returning to residences and other locations after a major terrorist or natural event," said an e-mail from Paul Lioy, an environmental health expert and deputy director at Rutgers University's Environmental
READ MORESingle and Off the Fast Track: It’s not just working parents who step back to reclaim a life
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- May 24, 2012
Much of the research on work-life conflict focuses on working mothers trying to juggle everything, desperate for more time. But an even higher proportion of single women yearn for more free time, according to a 2011 More magazine survey of professional women over 34. Sherri Langburt, founder of SingleEditionMedia.com, a New York agency that runs
READ MOREPeople Want Jobs That Make a Difference, Even If It Means A Pay Cut
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- May 24, 2012
A new survey comparing college students soon to enter the work force with current workers found that everyone wants an "impact job," and would do a lot to get one. Co.Exist, 5/23/2012
READ MOREBully victim’s poem prompts healing after 25 years
- Making a Positive Difference
- May 24, 2012
Lynda Frederick's poem about being bullied in a California school 25 years ago has brought her former classmates to tears. Now, they're creating a scholarship fund in her name and have raised $800 to fly her back to California for a class reunion. This will give her a chance to visit her father's grave, which
READ MOREFinal resting place: Cemeteries lack oversight
- Home & Family
- May 22, 2012
Is enough being done to protect bereaved families? Anderson Cooper investigates big profits and big problems in the burial business. He uncovers the unfortunate truth that at some cemeteries, graves have been desecrated, with workers digging up hundreds of bodies and dumping them into mass grades in order to resell the plots. 60 Minutes, 5/20/2012
READ MORERare disease or fake illness?
- Health & Healing
- May 22, 2012
Dr. William Gahl, director of the Undiagnosed Diseases Program at the National Institutes of Health, explains why mysterious ailments are sometimes mistaken for hypochondria. 60 Minutes, 5/20/2012
READ MOREUmbilical cord blood test could reveal how susceptible your baby will be to colds
- Home & Family
- May 22, 2012
Washington University School of Medicine has developed a technique for testing that has found that babies are more likely to suffer from viruses if they produce low levels of a specific immune boosting protein. Daily Mail, 5/18/2012
READ MOREMichael J. Fox looks past stem cells in search for Parkinson’s cure
- Celebrity HealthStyles
- May 22, 2012
Michael J. Fox, whose turn from Parkinson’s disease patient to scientific crusader made him one of the country’s most visible advocates for stem cell research, now says of the controversial therapy, "There have been some issues with stem cells, some problems along the way… Other avenues of research have grown and multiplied and become as
READ MOREMan donates Kmart items worth $20k
- Making a Positive Difference
- May 22, 2012
The latest "Making a Difference" segment on NBC News profiles a Kentucky businessman who spent just under $20,000 at a Kmart close-out sale and then generously donated the goods to a local charity. NBC Nightly News, 5/18/2012
READ MOREHis profit, your problem: While Mark Zuckerberg has made billions, Facebook users have been paying with their privacy
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- May 22, 2012
Considering the fact that more and more companies are checking the Facebook posts of potential employees and even asking for their passwords, people now need to be even more careful to make sure they don't post any photos or personal information about themselves online that could cost them a job. The fact that there is
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