Safe Rooms Saved Lives in Tornado Disaster The tornado that carved a path of destruction through Moore took 24 lives. Its winds were clocked at 400 kilometers per hour. With only 15 minutes warning, residents fled town or took refuge in the sturdiest...
Residents of Devastated Texas Town Work to Restore Lives The funeral procession was made up mostly of fire trucks and passed under a giant American flag. It's the first funeral of many to come in this Texas town and is for volunteer fireman Kenneth H...
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a waywar...
Chavez Spirit Lives On in Venezuelan Election Campaign An eternal flame marks the entrance of the National Pantheon, where the late President Hugo Chavez's body has been laid to rest. Every day, hundreds of his most loyal supporters, like Milagros Ro...
Nigeria Recruits Midwives to Save Lives Patience Afor Abdullahi, a midwife and the head of nursing at Abuja National Hospital in the Nigerian capital, has lost track of how many babies she has delivered and she would not trade her job for anything. I...
Tattoos Illustrate Art of Saving Lives It takes less than an hour for Robin Rhoderick to get what she has long wanted - a tattoo. Oh, look, she says, admiring the colorful emblem emblazoned on her forearm. It's beautiful. While many view tattoos as a...
Reality TV Show Helps Farmers Improve Livelihoods Entertaining, educating audiences David Campbell has lived in Kenya since 1979, using the mass media to teach farmers how to improve their techniques. As director of the company Mediae, Campbell aims...
Vietnamese-American Doctor Helps Rebuild Bodies, Lives To his patients at the Methodist Hospital of Houston, Doctor Tue Dinh is a miracle worker. Barbara Martinez came to him for help after surgery to fix a hernia left her with a painful and dangerou...
Where Do the Worlds Poor Live? Most of the worlds poor do not live in poor countries. New research says nearly 80 percent are actually in middle income countries. Two billion poor people those who live on two dollars a day or less live in middle inco...
Fistula Surgery Changes Nigerian Women's Lives Allowing the patient to live a normal life and giving her back some dignity is the objective of this surgery performed in Jahun hospital, in northeast Nigeria. Since 2008, the aid group Doctors Without B...
