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In 1998, Officer Peter Getz had just arrived at a burning apartment building in Hartford, Connecticut, when a firefighter handed him an unresponsive 5-year-old. He realized he had no time to wait for an ambulance. Getz administered CPR as a recruit drove them to the hospital. By the time they arrived,…

In the movie I Am Legend, one of the few survivors is Neville—a scientist trying to find a cure for a rampant disease that either killed or turned humans into Darkseekers – zombie-like creatures that haunt the streets at night. Every night Neville locks himself inside an armored house to escape the Darkseekers.…

A banking corporation conducted an unusual contest to inspire people to save money. The Ally Bank placed one hundred “lucky pennies” on the streets of ten U.S. cities. The pennies are similar to ordinary pennies, but are custom copper-colored discs bearing the bank’s lowercase ‘a’ logo and a redemption…

Thomas McNally is a 12-year-old Boy Scout in Long Island, NY. He earned a badge for learning the Heimlich maneuver, the preferred method to help people who are choking. Just a few weeks later, his own mother was choking and Thomas performed his newly learned skill. He saved his mother’s life. The Boy…

Lose it by John Fischer Marti was somewhat beside herself when she came and got me out of my garage office and led me over to the house where she has her own living room office, talking on the phone the whole time, but anxious about some kind of emergency. Inside the living room she pointed over to our…