Tuesday, May 19, 2009

This Week's Most Hopeful Headlines


Clean energy flows through grid, bringing hope to millions


Farms, flowers spring up in former slums


Young idealists swear, ‘This time, things will turn out differently’


Renewed oceans brimming with fish, birds


Airlift rescues Africa’s starving children


U.N. to rule Jerusalem as ‘international city,’ open to all


Welcomed by classmates, misfit teens lose interest in drugs


New graduates find fulfilling jobs, won’t have to grovel and sell their souls


Former hookers find love and happiness at community center


Hit man finds honest work, discovers joy in growing tomatoes


Billionaires emerge from guarded compounds, share their wealth


Touched by act of kindness, elderly recluse decides to venture out


L.A. residents breathe freely; skies clear and blue once more


Night skies sparkle over Nevada


As crime fades into memory, children enjoy parks alone


Religious leaders throw out ‘dumb old books,’ move on


Witch doctors declared extinct


Back from the brink, coral reefs a riot of color


International borders dissolve in new era of trust, cooperation


City limits redrawn in way that makes sense


Homes, food plentiful as population shrinks


Songbirds fill trees in abandoned prisons


Spring rains melt away humanity’s past horrors

Courtesy of C. Ward

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