The ability to reverse the fear of poor performance using self-affirmation helps 12 year old students boost their academic performance over a two year period.
The employees of the world's largest drug manufacturer came up with a plan that was announced today. Pfizer will offer 70 of it's most frequently prescribed prescription drugs free." Patients may call 866-706-2400 to sign up.
Back in May 2009, Faron Hall a Canadian aboriginal homeless man living along the Red River in Winnipeg Canada heard a large splash then saw a teenage boy in the frigid river and jumped in saving him.
Walking along in Penarth, Wales, Derek Eveleigh recently found 6,000 copper coins dating to the Roman Empire.
The city of Ghent in Belgium is choosing to be the first city in the world to become vegetarian one day a week.
The current state of the economy is producing more inventions if the amount of patents filed is a measure.
According to a study published in the National Academy of Sciences, a change in diet and exercise for just three months can change your DNA.
Brenda Bailey has won $167,000. with five scratch off lottery tickets. Monday she won $100,000. Her first thoughts are to repay friends who have been kind to her.
A research study conducted by Michael Smith, a PhD student at the University of Western Australia reveals "that a bowl of sugary high-GI glycaemic index) cereals may significantly improve (a healthy) adolescents' memory."
It's not enough for Sunitha Choudury to be the first auto-Rickshaw driver traversing the streets of New Delhi. She is also campaigning to become a member of the Indian Parliament as a candidate of the United Women's Front.
When nine year old Gabbie was told her Dad had Leukemia last year, her parents explained all about bone marrow transplants. But nobody thought that her Dad's marrow would not match even one of the seven million registered donors.
A British passenger on the MSC Melody sailing 600 miles off the Somalian coast noticed a band of pirates trying to board the cruise ship, before "raising the alarm" he threw a deck chair at them.
More than twelve colleges and universities in the United States have recently received anonymous contributions to education. All are different amounts.
Research conducted at North Carolina State University, found "that older people who are told they are likely to perform poorly in a memory test score worse than those who refuse to believe such negative stereotypes."
Over $14,000 Argentinean Pesos (US $4,000), has been donated by Argentineans to Santiago Gori a taxi driver in the city of La Planta, near Buenos Aires, since it was made public that he had searched out, and returned ARS $32,500 (US $9,000.) an elderly couple had left in his taxi.
Sakhalin a Russian energy consortium including Shell and Gasprom, has agreed to suspend seismic testing near Sakhalin Island in 2009 for the Western Gray whale's breeding season.
The refreshing waters of the ancient and historical Tigris and Euphrates rivers are once again flowing into the marshes of Mesopotamia.
The Afghanistan's Women's Affairs Minister states that the goal of the seminar is to share knowledge of the rights that are given to women in the Koran.
The genetic code of the H1N1 virus or Swine Flu has been cracked by scientists at the Canadian National Laboratory in Winnipeg. This breakthrough provides the ability to create a vaccine and to discover how the virus spreads and mutates.
A landlord was on his way to the bank to make a deposit but forgot to zip the bank bag. Over $10K flew away in the wind. He called out for help as the bills circled in the sky. People on the street rushed forward to help, every dollar was returned.
Switzerland's second largest bank, Credit Suisse has made cash offers of "between 50 per cent and 70 per cent of the nominal value of their investment." to 1,700 of their customers who were invested in Lehman Brothers financial products.
Yes, the US Federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. Most retail stores pay that amount as a starting salary. The management at Hobby Lobby has choosen to share their profits from a successful year with their employees by raising the starting salary to $10.00 an hour. According to founder David Green, "Our employees are the backbone of our company, and we believe that giving them the opportunity to share in our success is the right thing to do,". The Kansas City Business Journal
People called the Newspaper and Radio stations reporting that a woman was driving around Edmonton, Canada giving away $100 bills. "Happy Spring" was all she said as she presented surprised recipients with the bills.
India's Tata Motors has received over 203,000.00 fully paid orders for the cheapest car in the world nearly a year before the first one has rolled off an assembly line. While this car in it's current configuration would not work in the United States because of environmental and safety requirements, the Nano is the answer for many in India. The Nano gets 56 miles to the gallon and produces less emissions than the ever popular Indian scooter.
Even though the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institutes's tropical biology field station, actually Barro Colorado Island in the middle of the Panama Canal, is considered "the best-studied piece of tropical real estate in the western hemisphere." not one photograph of a jaguar has been taken, until now.
The latest missionary to the Pirahã tribe actually converted to the tribe's way of thinking; living in the now. According to Daniel L. Everett author of Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle, he went to the Amazon to teach the Pirahã about Christ, learn their language and translate the Bible. Instead they taught him about their way of living.
UPS Drivers in Northern California took up Yoga to prevent injuries and improve wellbeing. It's working.
The Home Depot in Harrison, Arkansas now houses a family of Great Horned Owls. Because the garden center has no roof the owls come and goe as they choose. Garden center employees consider them almost as pets. The mother owl showed up after an ice storm and soon started keeping house. Since Owls are raptors and are a protected species most likely they will stay where they are even though according to the garden center supervisor their four foot wingspan blocks out the sky when they fly in and out the open roof building.
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