Today's bit of good news: NASCAR driver Tony Stewart supports K9 officers by funding the purchasing of protective vests. As one of my friends had his K9 killed by criminals, this donation is especially poignant to me.t"NASCAR driver Tony Stewart is donating bulletproof,...
created by PEP | 1 year ago 456 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
Nope, you did not misread the headline, but Paris Hilton donated to LA's Children's Hospital. With her billions of dollars (from her family and herself) it is nice to see her finally giving back to the community....
UPDATE: Meanwhile, Michelle Obama promises a gay Democrats group that her husband will fight for gay equality. Given that Mrs. Obama is busy making policy and public statements, Mr. Obama is going to be hard-pressed, in any logical way, to continue to claim that the media and...
created by PEP | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 446 views | 20 recommendations | 5 comments
Morrissey ate his foot a few months ago when he made some arguably not-very-nice comments about UK immigration. Does that make his recent donation to an anti-racism festival a calculated attempt at damage control,...
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Scientology: the gift that keeps on giving...and 'de-aberrating'. Character actor Scientologists know this and, apparently, are more than willing to donate their hard earned millions to fighting the good...
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Santiago (ANTARA News) - Microsoft founder Bill Gates has donated ten
million dollars to help build a 400-million dollar high-powered
telescope in Chile, media here reported Saturday.
Another Microsoft alumnus, Charles Simonyi, has donated 20 million dollars to the project,...
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"Dutch May Compensate Kidney Donors
"The Dutch health minister, Ab Klink, is considering a recommendation to offer free health insurance for life to anyone who donates a kidney for transplant," reports The London Times. "The initiative has been prompted by a chronic shortage...
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This is great news. Although it could be a while before they are able to put this to real life use, it is a remarkable breakthrough in science.This quote from the article defines this find in a nutshell."It's a bit like learning how to turn lead into gold," said Dr. Robert...
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""Malaka state was very impressed on the Quran Centre learning program which turns out young male and female Quran readers and disseminates Quranic knowledge to the people," Hamadi Rahman, Quran Centre director said here Sunday.Malaka administration submitted the donation...
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Thanks to Dale Regehr's generous donations, SFU Surrey students benefit greatly in scholarships, new features on campus, and a building next to campus for student leisure."At 28, Dale Regehr, President & CEO...
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Linux users community sponsors car in the Indy 500 -
"As we ramp up to what many believe is the greatest auto racing spectacle in the world today, here is a story that is a little slice of the “American...
"Laura Brown, a mother with a son who fought in the Iraq war, is trying to improve conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center — one laptop computer at a time.
The 50-year-old from Cody, Wyo., was chatting on the Internet with the mother of a wounded soldier two years ago...
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As said in my previous http://www.nowpublic.com/the_war_on_copyright writeup, Google and the current copyright laws just do not match. Here is the next installment: Google donates a few bucks to Creative Commons, the brainchild of Lawrence Lessig. The article mentions "Google...
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" Official Release August 18, 2006 07:36 PM EDT (23:36 GMT) CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The NASCAR Foundation made a pit stop Friday at Classroom Central to donate over one ton of school supplies to benefit the Charlotte Mecklenburg and surrounding school systems. The NASCAR...
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"They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat upon them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water." -- Isaiah 49:10
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