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Difference MakerLisa Kristine reveals the brutal conditions 鈥� and uplifting humanity 鈥� of today's slavesPhotographer Lisa Kristine has traveled the globe for three decades, inviting viewers to deeply connect with her subjects.
Learning to expect surprisesFor nations as for people, flexibility, adaptability, and tolerance for a degree of messiness is the best approach for dealing with the unexpected.
When a deaf 15-year-old boy finally learns to speak, what does he say?Check out this short video of a Ugandan teenager just 10 weeks into a sign language program.聽
World Ocean School: sailing with a purposeA historical schooner is now a unique classroom that offers hands-on learning and life lessons.
Readers Respond Reader Write:US must end gun violence, and US/NATO actions provoke RussiaLetters to the Editor for Dec. 29, 2014 and Jan. 05, 2015 weekly magazine:Beckett:聽US should not tell people in another country on what strategies to adopt, what laws to make, 聽and more over sensitive issues.聽Lesnjak:聽NATO/US actions provoke the Russians and President Vladimir Putin
'Tis the season, when the police save ChristmasIn White Plains, N.Y., local police stepped in to save a family's Christmas after their gifts were stolen. It turns out, that's not so unusual.聽
Points of ProgressMore than half a million square miles of land have come under protection since 2012More than 15 percent of terrestrial and聽inland water areas around the globe are now under protection. The United Nations established a target of 17 percent by 2020.
A Bigshot with a big goal: Get kids thinkingA simple build-it-yourself camera teaches science and art.
Tsunami aftermath: The drive to move forwardHumans -- and humanity -- are more than the disasters that sometimes befall them. They recover. They rebuild. They live and laugh again.
Difference MakerRosemary Nyirumbe runs a school for young women fleeing slaverySt. Monica Girls鈥� Tailoring Center in Uganda teaches skills that allow women to earn a living for themselves 鈥� and often for the children they bore as slave 'wives.'
Molly Cantrell-Kraig uses a car as a vehicle to transform womenHer Women With Drive Foundation helps women whose only barrier to self-sufficiency is the lack of transportation.
How an ex-girlfriend's round-the-world ticket helped launch a global charityJordan Axani is leveraging his viral story about a free airline ticket for a Canadian named "Elizabeth Gallagher" into a campaign to raise money to help others travel. Here's why it just might work.聽
Founder of D.C. Central Kitchen tries feeding Los AngelesRobert Egger's L.A. Kitchen aims to reduce food waste and unemployment while combating hunger and isolation among older adults.
Oil, gas, and the Saudi factorSaudi Arabia's oil wealth gives it enormous influence in the world. Decisions made in Riyadh are felt from Moscow to North Dakota, Venezuela to Iran.聽
Points of ProgressChild labor: Number of children involved is shrinking every yearEleven percent of the world's children 鈥� about 168 million 鈥� are currently subjected to child labor, but between 2000 and 2012, the number of children involved was cut by one-third.
Philanthropist couple saved 3,000 migrants at seaChristopher and Regina Catrambone launched the Migrant Offshore Aid Station to rescue migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Europe.
Walden Pond, where Thoreau lived simply, goes solarWalden Pond, considered the birthplace of the environmental movement, will have a new visitor center, powered by solar energy, that includes a charging station for electric cars.
Readers RespondReader Write: Girl Scouts don't teach business skills, 'Band of Brothers' hit the mark, and tech companies overlook needs of older peopleLetters to the Editor for Dec. 15, 2014 weekly magazine:Mientus: A聽better approach to learning business leadership would be to have a Girl Scout troop sell cookies together.Soule:聽The photographs were especially effective and moving.Miller: Technology聽manufacturers聽overlook the needs of older people.
Farhana Yamin's simple yet radical idea: zero emissionsMs. Yamin has been a key actor in getting that ambitious goal into the discussion of carbon emission reductions under way at the UN climate talks in Lima, Peru.
Difference MakerNalini Shekar put aside retirement to help India's waste pickersIn Bangalore, India, Nalini Shekar has organized lowly waste pickers wandering the streets into a cohesive group of waste-management professionals.
