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- December 15, 2010
The small Bank of Cattaraugus in western New York has held its community together and supported local businesses and families for 30 years. Its owner, Patrick J. Cullen, remains unimpressed with the exotic financial engineering of bigger institutions. The Bank of Cattaraugus is a family business, with Cullen's wife Joan and daughter Colleen also working
READ MORECollege admission officers say the gap year is gaining momentum. And now, some of the nation's most competitive colleges — Harvard, Middlebury and Princeton, among others — have adopted formal policies to allow students to defer their admission. Higher education experts say that giving students an opportunity to explore the real world for a year
READ MOREHigh school senior Allison Bosse took it upon herself to help her classmates pledge to skip the tannning bed for prom this year. Those pledges, taken at Maynard High School in Maynard, Mass., are part of a growing trend at high schools around the U.S., aimed at educating students about the connection between tanning and
READ MOREHigh school senior Allison Bosse took it upon herself to help her classmates pledge to skip the tannning bed for prom this year. Those pledges, taken at Maynard High School in Maynard, Mass., are part of a growing trend at high schools around the U.S., aimed at educating students about the connection between tanning and
READ MOREActor Gary Sinise's role as amputee "Lt. Dan" in "Forrest Gump" made him a hero to real-life disabled veterans and inspired Sinise to help build specially-designed homes for the most gravely wounded. His Gary Sinise Foundation is building special homes designed to meet the needs of veterans who come back from war missing limbs. Sinese
READ MOREUpon graduating from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Orlando Morel, eternally grateful and inspired by the Coast Guard's role in his own rescue, will serve on a cutter out of Florida whose mission will include migrant interdiction in the very waters where Morel was rescued nearly two decades ago. At that time, Morel was a six-year-old
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