Young Jonathan Kaufmann would always remember his mother’s peals of hysterical laughter when the three blocks of ice were placed near the stove to thaw; the blocks of ice, after all, encased his... ...

1,180 miles.  Fifteen dogs.  One rookie musher.  The dream of the Iditarod – 1,180 treacherous miles of Alaskan wilderness on dog sled – became a reality for Gary Paulsen in 1983.  Paulsen had some...

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During the spring of 1995, a photograph of a pretty Ethiopian student and an anonymous note were sent to Harvard University’s student newspaper.  The note said: “Keep this picture.  There will soon...

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In 1963 Karol “Suds” Jackowski was a fun-loving, hard-drinking high school girl who had prayed earnestly that if a vocational “call” from Heaven to join the sisterhood ever came, the call would be... ...

People told five-year-old Stacey Patton that she was one lucky little girl, she was blessed.  At a time when many black children languished in the New Jersey social services department, a... ...