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Shocked To Learn How Data Brokers Are Watching You?0
- Consumer Alerts
- March 9, 2014
How safe is your personal information? An investigation by the 60 Minutes team explains what you really need to know about data brokers and how they get your information. Producer Maria Gavrilovic explains: “The majority of these companies don’t even consider themselves a data broker. They like to call themselves an app maker or a marketing company or a retailer.”
READ MOREBoy Author Raises $750K For Sick Friend0
- Making a Positive Difference
- March 5, 2014
What would make a 6-year-old not only think that he could raise a lot of money to help a friend battling a life-threatening disease, but then actually go ahead and do what most adults could not? Well, you’d have to ask that 6-year-old, Dylan Siegel.
READ MOREThe Shooting at Chardon High: A coach’s courage helps a high school recover0
- Making a Positive Difference
- February 28, 2014
You may not have heard about a school shooting that happened two years ago at Chardon High School in Ohio. Lives were saved when assistant football coach Frank Hall sprang into action. In an interview with 60 Minutes, Hall said he wished that he was seen as a “regular guy” instead of a hero for what he did that day.
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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 MOREWhen a hysterectomy is a death sentence0
- Health & Healing
- February 21, 2014
Having a hysterectomy used to mean 4 to 6 weeks of recovery time. Then along came a new procedure called morcellation, which allows the uterus to be removed through an incision in the belly button. This medical advance was greeted as welcoming news for women who could now recover in a little as 3 to 5 days. While tens of thousands of women each year currently opt for morcellation, for some it can prove deadly.
READ MORELaughter Improves Overall Health0
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- February 21, 2014
The old saying “laughter is the best medicine” really does ring true. Dr. Cynthia M. Thaik, author of “Your Vibrant Heart,” writes: “Laughter is similar to a mild workout: A good laugh contracts your abdominal muscles, gets the blood flowing, decreases blood pressure and stress hormones, improves sleeping patterns and boosts the immune system by increasing the number of T-cells in your body.”
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