December 2010
November 2010
Tips from a 107-year-old →
What to eat? Anything and everything. “Juicy steaks … pork chops - as much as you want!” Stanford exclaims. “Everything they say not to eat, I’ve been eating it since I was 45 years old.”
These days, she admits to a particular fondness for a smoothie made of Guinness stout mixed with the nutritional supplement Ensure, a drop of vanilla flavoring and a...
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Ohio man bowls 900 →
23-year-old Medina man bowled a history-making 900 series Sunday at Roseland Lanes in Oakwood. Matt Latarski said, “I couldn’t miss.”
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Hoxton Street Monster Supplies Now Open →
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The Incredible Flying Nonagenarian →
Masters competitions usually begin at 35 years, and include many in their 60s, 70s and 80s (and a few, like Kotelko, in their 90s, and one or two over 100). Of the thousands who descended on Lahti, hundreds were older than 75. And the one getting all the attention was Kotelko. She is considered one of the world’s greatest athletes, holding 23 world records, 17 in her current age category, 90 to...
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Volunteers helping relocation resisters →
For 120 people from across the country and into Canada, it will be a different sort of Thanksgiving.
Instead of feasting on turkey with their family, they’ll be sharing mutton stew with Navajo elders, some of whom don’t speak a word of English.
Instead of taking a holiday, they’ll be working, hard - herding sheep, splitting firewood and building corrals.
And, they’re...
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What a joyful noise! →
More than 650 singers burst into the Hallelujah from Handel’s Messiah in the middle of a downtown Macy’s.
“WASHINGTON – Yoko Ono and her son, Sean Lennon, are joining a national oral...”
– Yoko Ono interviews son for ‘Day of Listening’ - Yahoo! News
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“Jimmy Spearman rode his bicycle several blocks over to a corner near 10th Street...”
– Generosity, warm meals spread through neighborhoods | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star
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Mother shares childbirth with deployed husband... →
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There's poetry in altruism →
Six months ago, dental hygienist Jodi Tamen sent one of her kidneys west from Chicago to a stranger in Los Angeles — a high-spirited, gray-bearded poet named G. Murray Thomas. Last week, Tamen flew out herself to celebrate with the man whose life her gift restored.
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Who? Who!
Today in 1963, Dr. Who aired for the first time on BBC, beginning a program that eventually became the world’s longest-running sci-fi show.
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Sometimes, people don't suck.
Dave Talley, a homeless man, found $3,300 in cash in a backpack left behind at a light rail station in Arizona.
Video here.
Watchamalhayatee:
In the middle of war-torn Somalia, Dr. Hawa Abdi and her daughters have created a refuge where others can farm, learn and raise a family. Michelle Miller reports on Glamour magazine’s women of the year.
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One-eyed rescue dog becomes Frisbee star →
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Anybody know the way to the toga party?
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Everyone should be a superhero, at least for one... →
Dressing your grandmother as a superhero is a good idea, really. That’s what the grandson of one Holocaust survivor did when he found her alone and depressed.
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City Kids Go Country →
Thanks to DonorsChoose.org and people who gave to the project
Crow vending machine →
The idea came to Joshua Klein about 10 years ago at a cocktail party. A friend complaining about noisy crows in his yard suggested he’d like to see the flock of corvus americanus meet an unfortunate end, eat worms from the other side of terra firma, wake up 6 inches under.
“It seemed like a bad idea to me,” said Klein, who grew up in and around Seattle, attended Western...
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