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Children & Education

He Saved His Teacher's Life

Nicole Faleri's kidneys were quietly failing with no symptoms. The donor who saved her: a neighbor whose daughter had been one of her students — tested as a match six years earlier, on a whim.

Scientific Breakthroughs

A $3 Vaccine Beats Malaria

Sir Adrian Hill's R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine costs about $3 a dose, works in an ordinary fridge, and just won Europe's top invention prize — and it's already protecting children in about 20 countries.

Community Heroes

Then the Whole Town Showed Up

A deputy in Covington, Tennessee kept seeing the same boys mowing lawns in the July heat with a weed eater that wouldn't hold a charge — so he asked his town to help, and Covington delivered a riding mower, new gear, and coolers of ice cream to their door.

Inspirational Profile

He Put Books in Barbershops — 15,000 Kids Now Read

A first-grade teacher named Alvin Irby saw one of his students bored in a Bronx barbershop and wished the boy had a book. That single thought became Barbershop Books — a nonprofit that now reaches more than 15,000 children a year through over 260 barbershops, and this year was named the Un

Patriotism

81 Years Later, He Finally Got His Purple Heart

At 99 years old, World War II veteran Glenn Fisher finally received the Purple Heart his country had owed him since 1945 — 81 years after German shrapnel wounded him at the Rhine River. A decades-old reporting error had kept it from him, until people who cared set the record right, just mo

Environmental Victories

Rescued Twice, This Manatee Finally Swam Free

A starving orphan manatee named Alpine was rescued from Florida's Crystal River, rehabbed for two years, released - then rescued all over again. On June 23rd he finally swam free for good.