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Farmer Brings Milk to Enemies During War
The Bosnian War during the early 1990s pitted Bosnian Serbs against Muslims, making the sides bitter enemies. But after the war, journalist Chris Hedges ...
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The Man Who Protected Babies with Down Syndrome
In 1958, a brilliant young medical researcher made a startling discovery—Down syndrome, a genetic disorder that affects about one in 700 babies ...
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A "Shot to the Heart" Causes Cardiac Arrest
The technical name is Commotio cordis. It simply means a shot to the chest (or, literally from the Latin, "agitation of the heart"). Doctors ...
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National "Get Over It" Day
Letting go and moving on is a difficult, painful process. Bad relationships, bad decisions—we tend to revisit the moments when we were not-so-smart ...
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Pastor Weeps at Gang Member's Vigil
Paco Amodar, a pastor in Little Village on Chicago's west side, lives in a neighborhood rife with gang violence. He tells the following story about ...
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School Bus Driver Stops to Save a Life
On October 18, 2013 in Buffalo, New York, 37-year-old Darnell Barton was driving a bus filled with high school students over a bridge when he spotted ...
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Tim Keller's "Sequel" to the Good Samaritan
We're all familiar with the parable of the Good Samaritan. A despised Samaritan stops to help a man who has been beaten by robbers. One of the main ...
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Study Finds Poverty Saps Mental Capacity
For the rich or middle-class it might seem reasonable to ask, Why can't poor people just try harder and pull themselves out of the cycle of poverty? ...
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Unconditional Love for Someone with Severe Disabilities
Jean Vanier, a Christian leader who founded L'Arche communities around the world for persons with severe disabilities, tells a story about a 76-year-old ...
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Attorney Explains How We Allow Human Trafficking
People sometimes ask, How could sex trafficking happen in America's small towns or big cities? Julie Waters, a family law attorney and director of ...
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