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Jeff A. Katz

Water Treatment in Developing Nations: When Leapfrogging Technology Doesn't Work

Jeff A. Katz | Posted May 29, 2012

Read More: Millenium Development Goals, Water, Clean Water Technology, Developing Countries Clean Water, Developing Countries Technology, Developing Countries Water, Leapfrogging Technology, water, Water Filtration, Water

Visit any third-world country and you may be surprised at the number of cell phones you see. Children play their favorite ring tones and locals are eager to exchange cell phone numbers to keep in touch. With cell phones so pervasive in our society and getting smarter by the day,...

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Michael McAfee

Need Inspiration for Your Graduate? Start With the Time 100 List

Michael McAfee | Posted May 29, 2012

Read More: 2012 TIME 100, Arne Duncan, Michael McAfee, Promise Neighborhoods, Time Magazine, Education, Time 100, Time 100 List

We all need a little graduation inspiration, especially when it can feel like we're sending our graduates off on ice floes. So let me share my inspiration: the Time 100 list.

Jeremy Lin made the list this year, and from Secretary of Education...

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Kim Rabb

Expect The Unexpected Arrival When Your Soldier Comes Home

Kim Rabb | Posted May 29, 2012

Read More: Military Families, Memorial Day Weekend, Military, Military Family, Military Spouses, Military Wives, Soldiers, Veterans

As a military spouse, people think I'd know how deployments go when a soldier comes home from their overseas tour. It seems that my norm is when my husband comes home I have been in the 'soon to move' mode or in the active scampering packing and get everything done...

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Mike Lux

Kevin's Gift

Mike Lux | Posted May 29, 2012

Read More: Ayn Rand, Mitt Romney, Economy, Family, Mitt Romney Budget, Mitt Romney Budget Cuts, Mitt Romney Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan Budget

At my father's funeral, the presiding minister, Ebb Munden, was a man who had been one of my dad's closest friends. Ebb talked about how the last time he had gone to see my dad before he lost consciousness, he had been very emotional but that my dad had comforted...

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Franca Sozzani

Another Myth to Debunk: Designers Are, in Fact, at the Forefront in Getting Involved in Charity Initiatives

Franca Sozzani | Posted May 29, 2012

Read More: Celebrity Charities, Renzo Rosso Charity, Convivo, Designers Charity, Fashion Designer Charities, Fashion Designers Charity, Margherita Missoni Charity

The myth that fashion designers live in their villas and yachts refusing to know what happens to the less fortunate must be absolutely debunked.

We have been doing Convivio for the last 20 years, there's the Life Ball and AmfAR, and...

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Rev. Jesse Jackson

We Must Choose Nonviolence

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted May 29, 2012

Read More: African Americans, Chicago Crime, Chicago Gun Violence, Nato Summit, Gun Violence

Terror haunts the streets of our cities. Since 2008, more than 530 young people have been killed in Chicago. Almost four-fifths of these killings were in 22 African-American and Latino community areas on the city's South and Southwest sides.

Each year, across the country, about 7,000...

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Bus 52

Senior Dogs 4 Seniors (VIDEO)

Bus 52 | Posted May 29, 2012

Read More: Golden Retriever, Active, Community, Dogs, Energy, Help, Mobility, New Dog, Pets, Pets Adoption, Puppies, Senior Citizens, Video

Tucked away in a beautiful forest in Chesterfield, Missouri, Diane and David Pierce's house is home to 16 dogs, only a few of which are their own. The reason behind this large household is not only the great canine love they share but a inspirational desire to solve two problems...

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Jim Fruchterman

The Power of Failure, People and Karma Banking

Jim Fruchterman | Posted May 29, 2012

Read More: Commencement Speeches, Benetech, California, Karma, Karma Banking, Moraga, Social Entrepreneurship, St. Mary's, St. Mary's College

Commencement speech given at St. Mary's College, Moraga, California on May 20, 2012.

Six months after leaving grad school, I found myself at a rocket launchpad for one of the very first private enterprise rocket companies. Our business manager was doing the countdown. 5-4-3-2-1, oh, BLEEP. The rocket blew up!...

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Mark Jones

Rhinos in Crisis - and Why the Market Won't Save Them

Mark Jones | Posted May 28, 2012

Read More: Conservation, Endangered Wildlife, Rhino, Rhino Horn, Rhinoceros, Rhinos, Uk Impact, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade

The world's rhinos are in crisis.

Demand for rhino horn in the Far East has escalated in recent years to the point that a kilo of powdered horn is now reported to be selling for as much as US$65,000 on the black markets in Vietnam and China.

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Cat Carter

Fleeing Gunfire in Mogadishu - Fatuma's Story

Cat Carter | Posted May 29, 2012

Read More: Humanitarian Aid, Save The Children, Africa, Aid Workers, Charity, Impact, Somalia, Uk Impact, Uk World

Thousands of Somalis have been forced to flee an ongoing military offensive in Afgooye Corridor, Southern Somalia. More than 5,000 people have arrived, many on foot and carrying nothing, into overcrowded Mogadishu.

I'm standing in Sigale camp, Mogadishu, and the trickle of people struggling in becomes a torrent. Mothers carrying...

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Eva M. Clayton

Foreign Aid and Trade: A Balanced Approach to Promote Greater Food Security

Eva M. Clayton | Posted May 28, 2012

Read More: G8 Summit, Impact G8, Agriculture, Farming, Food Security, g8, g8 Conference, Global Food Crisis, Hunger, Palm Oil, World Hunger

After each G8 summit, a communique is regularly issued to demonstrate that all member states are in full agreement over their priorities.  In the realm of food security, the G8 had an ideal opportunity to provide a clear solution that embraces trade and opportunity, a new paradigm if you will,...

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Kathy Kelly

No One Hears the Poor

Kathy Kelly | Posted May 28, 2012

Read More: Afghan Women, Afghanistan War, Emergency Surgical Center For Victims Of War, Afghan Peace Volunteers, Us Troops Afghanistan

Here in Kabul, Voices co-coordinator Buddy Bell and I are guests at the home of the Afghan Peace Volunteers (APV), where we've gotten to know four young boys who are being tutored by the Volunteers in the afternoons, having "retired" from their former work as street vendors in exchange for...

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Kirk M. Bauer

A Vietnam War Vet on the Sport of Dedicating His Life to Younger Vets of Newer Wars

Kirk M. Bauer | Posted May 28, 2012

Read More: Disabled Sports USA, Memorial Day, Military Families, Mount McKinley, Neil Duncan, Afghanistan, Memorial Day 2012, Ptsd, Veterans, Vietnam, Wounded Warriors

Each Memorial Day, my thoughts return to 1969 when I served in Vietnam. I remember the young men we lost in the in the Ninth Combat Infantry Division (4th/39th) and the day I nearly lost my life to a grenade in the Mekong Delta. Lying in the mud and my...

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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

Expanding Opportunities for Our Heroes Here at Home

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted May 28, 2012

Read More: Memorial Day, Transition Assistance Program, VOW To Hire Heroes Act, Jobs, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Veterans, Veterans Jobs, Veterans Unemployment

This Memorial Day, as we pay tribute to all the brave heroes we have lost fighting for our country, we must also remember the debt we owe to those veterans who return home.

One of the greatest challenges our returning vets face is finding employment here at home. While too...

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Aloysius Boyle

Honoring the Fallen by Challenging the Living: The Legacy of a Gold Star Mother

Aloysius Boyle | Posted May 28, 2012

Read More: Memorial Day, Memorial Day Veterans, Travis Manion, Travis Manion Foundation, Veterans, Veterans Memorial Day

"... Let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves...

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Amy Koplow

Jewish Soldiers Perform Selfless Acts of Kindness (PHOTOS)

Amy Koplow | Posted May 28, 2012

Read More: Memorial Day, West Point, Hebrew Free Burial Association, Jewish Social Justice, Judaism, Loving Kindness, Military, Slideexpand, Tzedakah

My work with the Hebrew Free Burial Association (HFBA) over the last several years has presented many opportunities to observe sadness, flashes of greatness and inspiration as I review the cases and life stories that come across my desk.

HFBA has a unique mission. For 125 years we have...

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Tireak C. Tulloch

My Memorial Day Plans

Tireak C. Tulloch | Posted May 27, 2012

Read More: FDNY 9/11, Helena Williams, Marine Corps, Medal Of Honor, Memorial Day, Michael Murphy, Tom Hanks, American Legion, Fdny, Iava, Iraq And Afghanistan Veterans Of America, Lirr, Nypd, Nypd 9/11

I can honestly say that this Memorial Day weekend started the year before. I was in attendance at Yale University's Senior Class of 2011 closing ceremonies for my younger cousin, who has now gone on to Harvard for medical school. On Sunday, May 22, 2011, I witnessed Tom...

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Bonnie Carroll

Memorial Day: Honoring All Who Served and Died for Their Country

Bonnie Carroll | Posted May 27, 2012

Read More: Memorial Day, Military Families, Military, Taps Memorial Day, Tragedy Assistance Program For Survivors, Veterans Taps

Each year before Memorial Day, the soldiers of the Old Guard place thousands of flags on gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery. The annual "flags in" ceremony honors each headstone with an American flag, the same national symbol that covers a service member's casket at his or her funeral.

All...

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Mark C. Thompson

Two Ways to Give Back This Memorial Day

Mark C. Thompson | Posted May 27, 2012

Read More: Memorial Day, Gratitude, Mark-c-Thompson, Military, Patriot, Semper Fi Fund, Wwii

During a sea battle in the Pacific during WWII, my Dad was blown down on a full deck when a cannon backfired on the USS West Point. He had enlisted in the Navy to serve as a medic, and hit the bloody beaches in every battle without a firearm. He was shot...

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Andrew Lubin

Memorial Day 2012: Remembering Our Fallen

Andrew Lubin | Posted May 27, 2012

Read More: Air Force, Chris Anderson, Jim Anderson, Memorial Day, Afghanistan, Army, Ied, Kandahar, Marines, Military, Usmc

There is no such thing as a casualty-free war; and fortunately for the America, there are a select few who accept the most austere conditions in believing our country is worth defending.

As a combat journalist with time with the Marines in...

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