Positive news from North Carolina
Locals Volunteer Overseas With Operation SmileHigh Point, North Carolina, USA - Some local volunteers are making a big difference overseas by helping less fortunate children to smile. |
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Cancer cure in mice to get human trialsClinical trials begin this week at Wake Forest University on a cancer therapy that has completely cured the disease in every mouse tested over the past few years. |
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Green Spaces in Green Places: Is Building Green Going From Niche to Mainstream?Asheville, North Carolina, USA - There hasn't been a lot of good news in the general economy lately; from a complete collapse of sub-prime mortgage loans, to slumping property values, whip-sawing stock markets, $110+ barrels of oil and colossal brokerage houses that suddenly run out of cash -- it isn't pretty. |
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Positive Attitude Improves Heart Health, Study FindsDurham, North Carolina, USA - Keeping a positive attitude may be able to reduce your risk of dying from heart disease. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Birds Can “See” Earth’s Magnetic FieldOldenburg, Germany - To find north, humans look to a compass. |
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Scouts Missing In N.C. Mountains Found SafeWaynesville, North Carolina, USA - A group of missing Boy Scouts in western North Carolina were found safely Monday morning. |
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School Worker Returns after Trip of a LifetimeDurham, North Carolina, USA - He's 72-years-old and he's back at work after the summer of his life. |
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7-Year-Old Battles GunmanReidsville, North Carolina, USA - The gunman tried to hold up the convenience store where little Alisha's mom was working. |
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Good news in America
- Obama triples area of protected California coastline
- Obama ‘backs assault weapons ban’
- Victories for Marriage Equality and First Openly Gay U.S. Senator
- Lucas Giving Disney’s Billions To Fund Education
- New Water Treatment Process Could Help Bring Dead Zones Back to Life
- SpaceX launches station cargo
- Tesla Unveils Solar Powered Charging Stations
- Obama Hikes Fuel Efficiency to 54.5 MPG by 2025
- Bill Nye the Science Guy asks parents not to raise creationist kids
- Community-Owned Solar Power on the Rise in the U.S.
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