The administrative chief of a small village in Western Kenya started to use Twitter to prevent crime. Whenever there is a theft happening, the chief tweet about it and he village help with catching the thief. Even the criminals are following this twitter account now and sometime will just leave whatever they stole.
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2300 new jobs are now available after Starbucks has raised more than $7 million by selling ‘Create Jobs’ wristbands. The money from those wristbands made its way to small businesses and nonprofits.
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During 2011, General Motors, which nearly collapsed two years ago, earned $7.6 billion, its largest profit ever after breaking its 1997 record of $6.7 billion. At the beginning of March, the 47,500 blue-collar workers in the United States will get $7,000 profit-sharing checks.
Lelia Boroughs, who died at 84, from San Francisco, was known to her neighbors as an eclectic, kind soul who would offer to pick up their groceries and feed the homeless who squatted on the ledges outside her apartment. When she died she crafted her will to leave her condo to the city to turn into a homeless shelter.
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British scientists developed a new type of solar cell which could boost the efficiency of solar panels by over 25%. It will be 2-3 years more to assess whether it is commercially viable.
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A 9 years old girl from Maine is back home from a Boston hospital after receiving a 6-organ transplant - stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus to replace her own that were being choked by a huge tumor.
Frank Guidara,a Vietnam veteran and the CEO of Boston-based Uno’s Restaurant Corp., helped in organizing a 10,000 pizzas delivery to the U.S. troops in Afghanistan for the super bowl game.
According to a report released last week by Atlas of Giving, during 2011, Americans gave a total of nearly $347 billion to charity. This total is a a 7.5% increase comparing to 2010.
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A new yoga room is now available at terminal 2 at San Francisco airport. The room which has low lights, and soothing blue walls aim to afford travelers a place to stretch out and meditate before they get on a plane.
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51 years old Maria Vargas is fighting stage 4 cancer, and after chemotherapy didn’t work she started a new treatment which costs $10,000 a month. Last month Maria found a bag which was left on her doorstep filled with Avocados and below them an envelope with an anonymous cashier’s check in her name.
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