■ A high school baseball team in Sacramento was practicing last week when they heard desperate cries for help. A teenage girl had been pinned underneath a car in the Valley High School parking lot. Without prompting, the 30-strong team quickly lifter the four-door sedan off the injured girl, allowing coaches Troy Quirillo and Brett Sawyer to pull her to […]
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“I can change the world with my own two hands” – Ben Harper
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Percentage of the world’s population that could fit in Texas by living with the population density of New York City: 100
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Along with goods for U.S. markets, China’s booming factories are exporting pollution that fouls the air over the Western U.S., a new study has found. “We’ve outsourced our manufacturing and much of our pollution, but some of it is blowing back across the Pacific to haunt us,” University of California, Irvine, earth scientist Steven Davis tells The Telegraph (U.K.).The study […]
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Minimum percentage of Arctic warming that has been caused by commercial airline emissions: 10
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“When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing — nothing.” – Saint Francis of Assisi
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“Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel
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“Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.” – John D. MacDonald
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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” – Douglas Adams
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