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| Rafat Abonour,
M.D. |
| In October 2005
during the first annual Miles for Myeloma
event, Shirley Mesker, her husband,
and son biked eight miles along the
flat roads of northern Indiana past
the cemetery where Shirley and her husband
have burial plots. (more) |
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| Gary Brackett |
| Gary Brackett relies
on his faith to overcome the deaths
of his parents and his brother. The
Colts linebacker's survival story provides
inspiration amid the Super Bowl hype,
Mike Freeman says. (more) |
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| Geoffrey
Canada |
| The Harlem Children's
Zone, which serves 8,600 low-income
children on 60 New York City blocks,
isn't doing much new: It has smart-parenting
classes; it has all-day preschool; it's
phasing in a K-12 charter school. It
has tutoring and mentoring and antiviolence
initiatives. (more) |
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| Julie Davis |
| "There is a wonderful
mythical law of nature that the three
things we crave the most in life - happiness,
freedom and peace of mind - are always
attained by giving them to someone else."
(more) |
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|
Dick & Rick Hoyt |
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| Debbe Magnusen |
| Mother of seven
dedicates her life to saving babies
from abandonment (more) |
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| Julie Bennett
Monsey |
| Julie Bennett Monsey
is in demand. She answers her door with
a baby in one arm, a toddler reaching
for the other one, and a 3-year-old
wrapped around her leg. Julie's fourth
child, a 5-year-old, is at preschool.
(more) |
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| Nikki Myers |
| Downward facing
dog, child’s pose, sun salutation …
To anyone who has taken a yoga class,
these are familiar phrases, recalling
the more universal poses yoga teachers
of all persuasions instruct their class
members to strike. (more) |
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| Lois Main
Templeton |
| After more than
a quarter-century as one of the city's
most visible female artists, Lois Main
Templeton shows no signs of letting
up, even as she approaches age 80. (more) |
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| Dr. Jill
Bolte Taylor |
| As a Harvard-trained
neuroanatomist, Jill Bolte Taylor has
always known more about brains than
most people. But when a brain hemorrhage
triggered her own stroke, she suddenly
had a front-row seat on the deterioration
of the brain. (more) |
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| Anne Mahlum |
| At 5 a.m. on any
given day, Anne Mahlum could be found
running the dark streets of Philadelphia
-- with homeless men cheering her on
as she passed their shelter. But one
morning last spring, she stopped in
her tracks. (more) |
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| Lisa F.
Jackson |
| The Greatest
Silence: Rape in the Congo (more) |
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| Irena Sendler |
| Irena Sendler —
credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish
children from the Nazi Holocaust by
smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto,
some of them in baskets — died Monday,
her family said. She was 98. (more) |
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