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For all those dismayed by scenes of looting in disaster-struck zones, whether Haiti or Chile or elsewhere, take heart: Good acts – acts of kindness,

By Jason Leopold Nearly a year after Democrats introduced legislation to reform the health care industry – first by flirting with the prospect of having

Granny D … having raised more hell in her last decade than most people do in their whole lives. Doris “Granny D” Haddock, the woman

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By Rachel Beck The city of Los Angeles is putting banks it does business with on the spot. The unanimous directive coming from the city

Two years after receiving its first deposits, a “doomsday” seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the

Click for larger chart The Association of American Railroads (AAR) today reported that in February 2010, U.S. freight railroads saw a 1.5 percent decline in