Thursday
March 5, 2009
It may not be the nicest thing to think about, but human waste is serious business. Here in the United States, you can simply flush the toilet and need never give a second thought to your number twos. But in many developing countries, it’s nowhere near so ...
Friday
February 27, 2009
Black History Month dates back to 1976, when “Negro History Week” was extended to the month of February. That year doesn’t seem so long ago, but when we stop to consider where we are in 2009, it’s shocking to see how far we’ve c...
Wednesday
February 25, 2009
We all hear so many sad stories of animal abuse—of pit bulls being forced to fight and kill one another; of pets left outside to suffer through the coldest and hottest of days; of dogs and cats left behind to die when their owners move; and of the millions...
Thursday
January 29, 2009
Kids growing up in inner-city neighborhoods have slim prospects from the start. Drugs and crime are tough to avoid. Very few of the people in their communities have graduated from high school, much less gone to college. And even when inner-city children make the...
Tuesday
January 27, 2009
Washington D.C. may be home to some of the most powerful people on Earth, but the capital city still has its fair share of problems: D.C. has one of the highest rates of homelessness, drug addiction, and AIDS in the country. Almost one out of five people in the ...
America’s newest leader, President Barack Obama, has stressed the importance of service to our communities and our country through volunteering and philanthropy. In fact, he’s already suggested an innovative plan to give college students $4,000 tax c...
Our new President Barack Obama has vowed to usher in a new era of service and charity for the American public—and while that sounds wonderful, it got us curious about something. Just how charitable are the American presidents of our time? While they may ha...
Friday
January 16, 2009
Only 55 years ago, blacks and whites went to separate schools, ate at separate restaurants, used separate bathrooms, and even drank water from different fountains. Today, we’re standing on the precipice of a historical moment: the inauguration of America&r...
Tuesday
January 13, 2009
Ever since the release of Al Gore’s sobering documentary about our planet’s future, An Inconvenient Truth, there’s been no escaping the fact that we need to focus our efforts on cleaning up our land, sea, and air in order to ensure that we have...
Saturday
January 10, 2009
Most of us don’t have a lot of love for our school days: diagramming sentences, solving algebra equations, and memorizing the state capitols isn’t exactly the most exciting way for a child to spend his time. In many schools, factors like overcrowding...
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