"B. Virdot" and His Secret Gifts - CBS Sunday Morning. A long-ago series of secret holiday gifts has at long last become a secret shared. Here's Rita Braver: It started with a suitcase . . . Ted Gup's 80 year-old mother handed it to him in 2008. The label said, "Memoirs. " Days later he popped the latches and opened it. "And then inside this were stuffed a couple of hundred letters," Gup said. The letters were a portal into the Great Depression and its impact on Individual lives and on the life of a community - Canton, Ohio, Gup's home town . . .
"I am 14 years old, and I'm writing this because I need clothing. "Christmas will not mean much to our family this year, as my business, bank, real estate, insurance policies are all swept away "When our rent, gas, coal and just the cheapest of food is bought. Gup also found what prompted the letters: A small advertisement in the local paper, the Canton Repository, offering small gifts to struggling families: So they will be able to spend a merry and joyful Christmas.
"There are parallels," he replied. Jumo, From a Facebook Founder, to Focus on Charities. Heroes 2010 - Everyday People Changing the World - Special Reports. Millionaire's One-Man Stimulus Plan a Success - CBS Evening News. As the country braces itself for another lackluster jobs report, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric met a Philadelphia man who isn't waiting for the president or the 112th Congress to jumpstart the economy. In fact, he's putting his money where his mouth is - and if he gets his way, it'll cost him plenty.
Leo Deoliveira is back on the job, after nearly five long years on unemployment. "Three years ago, we lost our house," he said. "It was rough. " But the 43-year-old father of four can't thank a headhunter or some local politician for getting him hired. He can thank Gene Epstein, a 71-year-old philanthropist from Philadelphia. "I've been through recessions over my lifetime, and I've never seen anything like this," Epstein said. That's why he's pledged to donate $1,000 to charity for the first 250 small businesses that agree to hire just one employee. "There's 5,700,000 small businesses," Epstein said. His crusade started with a full-page ad in the Bucks County Courier Times. Hire Just One. Eastern Islam and the 'clash of civilizations' - latimes.com. Islam has been an American obsession for at least a decade. The 9/11 attacks and the intractable violence in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan — however much we have been the cause of it — have left us bewildered and terrified by this seemingly austere and martial faith.
Islam was spread quickly by the sword from Arabia westward across North Africa, the history books tell us, and is supposedly prone to the extremities of thought to which deserts give rise. But there is a whole other side to Islamic history that has been obscured, even as it illuminates a key strategic geography of the 21st century. While we in the United States have concentrated on the western half of the Islamic world in the Middle Eastern deserts, there is an eastern half in the green forests and jungles of the tropics where global energy routes and merchant sea traffic now intersect.
Whereas 20% of Muslims live in the Middle East, 60% are in Asia, according to the Pew Research Center. Number of Families in Shelters Rises. Elder Abuse: America's Dirty Secret - Ken Connor. The plight of elderly Americans has been a top concern of the Center for a Just Society since our inception in 2005, and as senior citizens comprise an ever increasing percentage of our nation's population, the need is greater than ever to draw attention to a little discussed, little known epidemic in American health care.
According to a new study released this month by the American Association for Justice (AAJ), eldercare abuse in America has escalated from a shameful problem to a full-blown humanitarian crisis. As the report illustrates, our nation's looming demographic boom will pose more than a financial challenge for our society – it will pose a moral challenge that is just as important: What kind of care and treatment does our society consider appropriate for its most vulnerable members? As an attorney I have spent decades representing elderly men and women who have endured unspeakable abuse and neglect in nursing homes.