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Memorial Day: Honoring Those Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice For Our Freedom
Abts, Richard. Adamski, Walter. Ahlman, Enoch.
The names are whisked away by the hot, gusting wind as soon as they are spoken, forgotten in the stream of the next name and the next name and the next name.
Fuller, Addison. Fuller, Mary. Furlong, John.
The story of America could be told through these names, tales of bravery and [...]
Fighting To Live: A Family’s Battle With Lou Gehrig’s Disease
As Lou Gehrig’s disease sapped Joshua Thompson of his ability to move and speak last fall, he consistently summoned one question from within the prison of his own body. “Iplex,” he asked, in a whisper that pierced his mother’s heart. “When?”
Iplex had never been tested in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the formal name for [...]
John King/CNN: Bad Economy Puts More Families On The Streets
The tears begin and her voice trembles as Ruth Martinez remembers the first few days of her new world.
She would leave work, pick up her son Jacob at school and drive aimlessly, sometimes sneaking back to the office, “to watch TV there without my boss knowing.”
Her husband had lost his job, and the stress drove [...]
Adjusting To Job Loss – Workers Fight Back With Courage & Common Sense
Rob Noonan’s friends think he’s a sucker. Laid off from his $140,000-a-year construction management job when the credit markets froze, he still shows up at work, one man working without pay in a cluster of vacant cubicles, trying to make something out of nothing.
While friends are mystified that he would toil for the developer who [...]
Person Of The Week: Bruce Springsteen Makes Terminally-Ill Fan’s Dream Real
The title for Bruce Springsteen’s new album, Working On a Dream, couldn’t be more fitting.
Last night in Los Angeles, Springsteen made a terminally ill fan’s lifelong dream come true. Karen Marquadt had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and on Monday April 13, her oncologist informed her that she was left with only three weeks to [...]
Learning To Live While Dying: A Story of Terminal Illness
When George Dello of San Diego was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and told he had at best five months to live, he didn’t immediately begin the chemotherapy treatments his doctor recommended. Instead, he and his wife, Pam, drove up the California coast and spent a week among the redwoods north of San Francisco.
“These trees are [...]
Life Lessons From the Family Dog
Our family dog started failing a couple of months ago. Her serious health problems began at about the same time I was coping with my own — finishing my radiation and hormone therapy for prostate cancer.
Since last summer, I’ve learned that my cancer is shockingly aggressive, and the surgery, radiation and hormone treatments have left [...]
Tale Of Two Families: Down But Not Out: Overcoming Job Loss
Rick Rose did just about everything right with his finances.
He worked hard. He saved well from the $85,000-a-year job he had as communications director for a nonprofit in Washington. He bought a home he could easily afford. In fact, he had saved about a year’s worth of living expenses.
But in two months, Rose, 43, could [...]
And Now For Something Upbeat & Positive: Two Men Praised After Catching Falling Baby In Massachusetts
Two men were praised as heroes today after they caught an 18-month-old baby girl who plummeted at least 30 feet from the window of a triple-decker apartment building in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Alex Day, 23, of Lawrence joined Robert Lemire, 45, of Methuen in catching the baby as she hurtled towards the earth Sunday night.
“She looked at [...]
Strangers Lend a Hand to Job Seekers
Once you’ve tapped out your network and run out of recruiters to contact, where do you go to get help finding a job these days? For a growing group of job hunters, total strangers have become the answer.
In late January, Jason C. Blais began following JobAngels, a group on the social-networking site Twitter.com that is [...]
