News & Features Archive

• May 08 2008

  Softball Players Help Injured Opponent Score Home Run

  When a softball player became injured after hitting the ball out of the park, her opponents lifted her up and carried her across the field to help her make a home run. Read More

• April 27 2008

  ‘The Iron Nun’ is World’s Oldest Female Triathlete

  Sally Field may have been the Flying Nun -- but could she swim 2.4 miles through the ocean, bike 112 miles across a lava desert, and wrap it up with a 26.2 mile run, all within a single day? Read More

• April 22 2008

  14-Year-Old Leads Escape from Burning Plane

  When a plane crashed in the Congo before takeoff last week, it caught fire with passengers still on board. But a 14-year-old girl, April Mosier, led the way to safety. Read More

• April 21 2008

  Musician Wins Prize for Songs About Sanitation

  Most musicians want fortune, fame, a bowlful of after-show M&Ms with the brown ones removed, and the license to smash up hotel rooms whenever they feel like it. Not Feliciano dos Santos: He just wants people to wash their hands. Read More

• April 20 2008

  80-Year-Old Harry Lee McGinnis Walks Around the World

  For the last 18 years, Harry Lee McGinnis has been walking his way around the entire globe, carrying nothing but a backpack and a walking stick. Read More

• April 17 2008

  7-Year-Old Acts as Human Shield to Save her Mother

  In December, a little girl jumped on her mother's lap to keep her from being shot. She saved her mother's life - and now, against all odds, it looks like she'll make a full recovery. Read More

• April 12 2008

  11-Year-Old Saves Classmates in School Bus Crash

  Last week, a school bus full of children started rolling down a hill, straight into oncoming traffic. But everything turned out okay - thanks to one brave 11-year-old. Read More

• April 09 2008

  Maasai Warriors Run Marathon to Save Lives

  A group of six Maasai warriors have left their African village for the first time to run the London Marathon, hoping to raise enough money to bring clean drinking water to their village. Read More

• April 09 2008

  Lotto-Winning Butcher Hands Out Cash and Chickens

  When Toronto butcher Jose Lima won more than $14 million in the lottery, he shared the wealth, handing out thousands of dollars - and 50,000 pounds of chicken. Read More

• April 05 2008

  America’s First Gospel Group: The Fisk Jubilee Singers

  A group of former slaves started a singing group to keep their school from shutting down - and more than a century later, America's first all-black hit singing group is still going strong. Read More

• April 01 2008

  Soldier Dives onto Live Grenade to Save his Fellow Troops

  When a soldier tripped a live grenade, he didn't run for cover: Instead, he dove onto the grenade to save his fellow men. Amazingly, he survived. Read More

• March 31 2008

  Man Buys Dinner for his Mugger

  When a young man tried to mug a New York City social worker, he got a lesson in kindness -- and a free meal. Read More

• March 29 2008

  Paralyzed Man Stops Armed Robber

  When former police officer David Rodriguez caught an armed robber in the act, he knew he had to stop him -- despite being paralyzed. Read More

• March 25 2008

  Students Wear Pink to Stop School Bullying

  When a boy was bullied for wearing pink to his school in Nova Scotia, two seniors came up with a plan to make the bullies see red. Read More

• March 24 2008

  The Original Banker to the Poor: Muhammad Yunus

  Today, microfinance is a common buzzword. But it all started in 1974, when a man lent $27 of his own money to a group of basket-weavers in Bangladesh. Read More

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