It’s a deal that has worked throughout human history: Your parents take care of you when you are little and you return the favor when they are old. But sometimes the usual arrangement is turned on its head. Maria Garcia is 87 years old. After a rich and rewarding life, sheContinue Reading
Six years ago a Denver, Colorado man hit his head hard after diving into the shallow end of a pool. Days later, he sat down at a piano and discovered he was a musical genius. Derek Amato is one of just 30 “acquired savants” worldwide. Each discovered an inexplicable abiltyContinue Reading
When the local Kmart in Clark County, Kentucky announced it was closing, a local business man knew that he could do something good for the area. Rankin Paynter, an owner of a successful jewelry exchange business in Winchester asked a Kmart clerk what they did with all of the unsold merchandise.Continue Reading
Luckily there are some tippers out there so generous that we momentarily forget about out all the bad ones. One Houston waiter learned that firsthand this Memorial Day weekend when he received a $5,000 tip on a $26 bill — that’s a 19,000 percent tip. The generous gratuity wasContinue Reading
Thanks to one Rosemount second grader, Girl Scout cookie season made it to Afghanistan this year. Bella Johnson, a student at Shannon Park Elementary School, was in the middle of selling cookies earlier this year when she decided she wanted to do something to help other people. She wasn’t sureContinue Reading
After Svante Myrick, 25, became the youngest-ever mayor of Ithaca, N.Y., he gave up his car to join the estimated 15 percent of his city’s residents who walk to work. As mayor, however, Myrick has a prime downtown parking spot reserved for his exclusive use. So instead of letting it stand empty,Continue Reading
You can’t keep a good man down — especially not Matt W., who just single-handedly made us vow to never say we’re too tired for the gym again. The determined student, who has spastic cerebral palsy, was given the option to sit out field day at Worthington, Ohio’s Colonial HillsContinue Reading
RETRIEVING a lost soccerball is standard fare for many teenagers, but one Japanese schoolboy is getting his ball back all the way from Alaska, where it drifted following last year’s tsunami. Misaki Murakami, 16, lost his house and all its contents when the massive waves of last March crushed hisContinue Reading
It took months to find the right tree to build on, and when he did the spot was on public land looking down on a row of multi-million dollar homes. But that didn’t stop Joel Allen – he just built this incredible egg-shaped treehouse in Canada anyway, without telling anyone.Continue Reading
Hannah Wyman is a fifth-grader from Leominster, Mass., who, instead of aspiring to be a game maker like many other kids, is one today. And thus far, she’s doing a fairly decent job; Wyman was recently invited to the White House to show off her game “Toxic” to a captiveContinue Reading