News & Features Archive

• October 27 2009

  Florida Breast Health Initiative Founder Goes Door to Door to Beat Breast Cancer

  Learn about Andrea Ivory, a breast cancer survivor who created a nonprofit dedicated to helping low income women prevent and treat breast cancer. Read More

• October 26 2009

  Child Cancer Survivor Allison Winn Raises Funds for Therapy Dogs for Sick Kids

  After cancer survivor Allison Winn got a therapy dog, she made it her mission to raise money to help other kids with cancer get their very own therapy dogs. Read More

• October 20 2009

  Two Sisters Out to Change the World – On Motorbikes

  By traveling the country on motorcycles in 1916, two sisters helped pave the way for the women's rights movement. Read More

• October 19 2009

  Segway Inventor’s New Device Turns Sewage into Clean Water

  The inventor of the Segway has come up with a revolutionary invention that could provide access to clean water for millions of people. Read More

• October 18 2009

  Soldier Walks 1,000 Miles to Help Iraqi Children

  After coming home from Iraq, Sergeant Gunnar Swanson was so haunted by what he had seen that he went on a mission to help Iraqi children escape the violence in their country. Read More

• October 15 2009

  Clean the World Saves Lives with Recycled Soap

  A non-profit group called Clean the World is sending slightly used bars of soap overseas to save lives in developing countries. Read More

• October 12 2009

  Babar Ali, 16, Creates Free School for Poor Villagers

  A 16-year-old boy from India has created a free program to educate more than 800 children in his village. Read More

• October 08 2009

  Boy with Cancer Becomes Comic Book Superhero

  To make it easier to deal with his chemotherapy and radiation treatments, a seven-year-old boy learned to imagine himself as a superhero. Now, there's a comic book featuring his adventures to help other sick children. Read More

• October 06 2009

  Wyatt Wilke’s Sunflower: A Bittersweet Victory

  Wyatt Wilke grew a sunflower to enter in a contest in a nearby town, but died unexpectedly the day of the competition. Instead, his family took his flower to the show—and won the prize in his name. Read More

• September 27 2009

  Landlord Gets Job to Pay Laid-Off Tenants’ Bills

  When two of his tenants lost their jobs, a landlord decided to get a job to cover their bills, rather than kick them out. Read More

• September 20 2009

  Boy Wonder Physician Hunts Modern Medicine’s Holy Grail

  After school, 16-year-old Akrit Jaswal spends time on his favorite hobby: trying to find a cure for cancer. Read More

• September 07 2009

  Holocaust Children Unite to Celebrate their 100-Year-Old Hero

  In 1939, a British stockbroker went on a mission to rescue 669 Jewish Czech children from certain death at a concentration camp. 70 years later, his "children" have made a journey back to thank him. Read More

• September 01 2009

  Quadruple Amputee Dances at World-Famous Juilliard School

  Although Kiera Brinkley is a quadruple amputee, her disabilities have never stopped her from dancing. And recently, she had the opportunity to show off her skills with a performance at the world-famous Juilliard School. Read More

• August 31 2009

  Two Campus Cops Solve Infamous Dugard Kidnapping Case

  As the grisly details of the Dugard kidnapping story emerge, one element has gone largely unnoticed: the heroic acts of two members of the University of California Berkeley police force, which led directly to the arrest of Dugard's captor. Read More

• August 30 2009

  Katrina-Devastated School Gets $2 Million Donated Stadium

  New Orlean's Carver High School and its football field were both destroyed in Hurricane Katrina. Now, the school's athletic director and coach are working to bring back school spirit with the establishment of a new $2 million stadium, funded by donations. Read More

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