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Cops Decide Heroin Addicts Will Be Helped With Rehab, Not Arrested
People who turn in their drugs to the Gloucester Police Department and ask for help won’t be arrested, they’ll be rehabilitated. Additionally, the department will...
NASA Device Finds 4 Buried Victims in Nepal by Detecting Heartbeats
Four men trapped under 10 feet of bricks, mud and other debris were rescued in Nepal thanks to a heartbeat detection device developed by...
Service Turns Your Social Media Posts into Handwritten Notes for Troops
Reconciling new-age social media with old-school tradition, a new service turns Tweets into snail mail for American Military service members around the world. Since smartphones are...
Solar Solution: MIT Creates Way to Make Salt Water Drinkable
The world is awash in seawater that we can’t drink or use for crops. To help people in drought-stricken areas from California to India,...
New York State to Turn Lights Out for Migrating Birds
The bright lights of New York attract millions of people to the big city, but they’ll be attracting fewer birds–which is a good thing...
Thousands of Volunteers Offer to Clean Up Baltimore After Riots
Armed with brooms and trash bags, volunteers have marched into the streets of Baltimore, turning out in force to clean up “Charm City” after...
Work With Texas Immigrants Earns Her 2015 Teacher of the Year Honor
Shana Peeples, who teaches advanced English at Amarillo’s Palo Duro High School, has done wonders for kids who might normally remain invisible, both inside...
Fatal Crashes for Teen Drivers Down 55 Percent in the US
The number of drivers between the ages of 16–19 involved in fatal automobile crashes in the United States has plummeted by 55% over the...
POWWOW Diverts 30 Million Pounds of Produce Annually From Landfill to Food Banks
About four billion dollars worth of produce is imported from Mexico every year at the border of Nogales, Arizona, for distribution around the U.S....
We Stumbled Upon a Lincoln Lovefest at Ford’s Theater 150 Years After His Death
The most fortuitous thing happened while I was entertaining an out-of-town friend in Washington, DC yesterday, driving her around to see the cherry blossoms...
Veterans Ensure Safe Passage for Chicago Kids Walking To School
U. S. Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are keeping youngsters safe on their walk to and from school in Chicago. The successful program...
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