Monday
November 2, 2009
One month after Callie Ann Daugherty was born, her mother noticed a lump behind her ear. As Callie Ann grew, the lump kept growing, eventually covering the entire lower part of her face. It turned out be a hemangioma, a vascular tumor caused by weak blood vessel...
About a year ago, Jared Paul was in the throes of what he calls “a third-of-life crisis.” He and his girlfriend had broken up. His career in sales and marketing left him unfulfilled. He felt spiritually empty. Paul, 32, left his job to ponder his nex...
Bikers Against Animal Cruelty started off as a casual party. V.J. Peregolise, an engineering designer at Northeast Utilities in Connecticut and an avid motorcyclist—he's been riding for more than 20 years and now rides a Harley Davidson Road King—had...
Friday
August 7, 2009
In 1999 when Mona Purdy was traveling in Central America, she saw children painting tar on the soles of their bare feet so they could run races during their village festivals. An American orthopedic surgeon she met in Guatemala told her children did this because...
Monday
July 13, 2009
About 13 years ago, Wynn Okuda, a cosmetic dentist with a practice in Honolulu, Hawaii, sat down to lunch with his office manager, Julie Brum. Their lunch conversation focused on the extremely high level of domestic violence in Hawaii.
“Much of the dome...
Thursday
July 9, 2009
When Taylor Chace was 16, he suffered a spinal cord injury while playing hockey. "Everyone thought that would be the end of competitive hockey for him," says Tom Carr, assistant director and director of athletics for competitive sports at Northeast Passage.Chace...
Monday
July 6, 2009
When Elissa Montanti first met 13-year-old Ali Ameer in May 2003, in the Al-Tahreer General Hospital in Basrah, Iraq, his open smile and solemn dark eyes were seared into her memory. Ali, who had lost a hand in a recent bombing, was one of hundreds of children c...
Thursday
June 25, 2009
In 2003, Ben Schumaker, a graduate student in social work at the University of Wisconsin, went to Guatemala to volunteer at an orphanage. When he arrived, he was distraught to realize how little he could do to help them: “It struck me profoundly that at th...
Monday
June 22, 2009
Most college students worry about exams, grades and what to do during summer break. But 25-year-old Amanda Dye has something bigger on her mind: the 20 orphans in Africa for whom she’s taken legal responsibility.For the past two years, the children, who ra...
Thursday
June 11, 2009
On a trip to Morocco in 1977, mechanical engineer Don Schoendorfer saw an indigent woman who was unable to walk, reduced to crawling across the street. The image of extreme poverty and disability haunted him for years afterward. Years later, after a lucrative ca...
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