August 2012
July 2012
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Forget ‘random acts of kindness’ — a group of volunteers decided to coordinate their efforts to spread love and happiness on June 30 this year. Taking place simultaneously in New York City, Dallas, Boston, Richmond, Va., and Seattle, ‘Kindness Captured: A Day of Bravery and Kindness’ was sponsored by two organizations — American Bear Films and Guerilla...
7 Latinas to watch at the London 2012 Olympics
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Fierce boxer Marlen Esparza was featured in Vogue recently.
By PRISCILLA RODRIGUEZ
The 2012 Summer Olympics officially kick off tomorrow in London. We’re rooting for Team USA, and these seven Latinas are on the team representing for all of us. Check out this list of athletes you should be watching for over the next few weeks.
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IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW.
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And then I realized, OH MY GOD, THEY ARE PANTOMIMING THEIR INDIVIDUAL EVENTS.
SAILING (ROWING A BOAT?!) edit: NO WAIT, THE BOYS ARE THE WIND IN HER SAILS.
MARATHON
JUDO
HOLY SHIT THESE GUYS ARE BRILLIANT SAKJHLJKFSHSF LOOOOVE.
I’d like to go out for drinks with the independent athletes.
In the first picture, the guys are benders. It’s...
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Google Science Fair Winner Brittany Wenger Made a... →
Looking back on high school, I’m often surprised that I graduated with even a modicum of science literacy — let’s just say that my projects usually seemed a bit rushed, which is to say they were entirely completed the night before the due date. But for the teens who competed in this year’s Google Science Fair, an annual competition that invites teenagers from around the...
Four legged heroes get star treatment →
by Michele D. Maniscalco
Animal Rescue League’s Happy Tails benefit a success A boundlessly brave and loving pit bull who lost her leg while saving her owner from an oncoming train and a cat who, as a tiny kitten, survived last year’s tornadoes in central Massachusetts were A List celebrities at the Animal Rescue League of Boston’s (ARL) Happy Tails benefit and gathering on Sunday, July 15 at...
Hero amid the bullets: The power of female... →
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With blood spurting from her wound, 19-year-old Allie Young urged her friend, Stephanie Davies, 21, to flee. “Stephanie refused,” the president recounted, and even as bullets continued to fly she applied pressure to Young’s wound with one hand, and called 911 with the other. Davies helped…
Lenovo chief gives his $3m bonus to lower-paid... →
Lenovo’s chief executive has given a $3m bonus he received for bumper results to thousands of the computer manufacturer’s lower-paid workers, reports say.
Yang Yuanqing had been given the extra cash on top of his usual bonus in May, following record results that accompanied Lenovo’s ascension to the number-two PC-maker spot, just behind HP. On Thursday, a Chinese report stated...
