How To Help Pakistan’s Flood Victims

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From Tonic.com By Diane Herbst | Thursday, August 5, 2010 5:00 AM ET Millions in Pakistan need clean water, sanitary food, housing and medical care. Organizations are now on the ground helping those displaced by the worst floods in 80 years. Here’s how you can support their efforts. In Pakistan, an estimated 3 million victims [...]

From Seedlings to Servings: 11-Year-Old Grows Tons of Veggies for the Homeless

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By Diane Herbst | Sunday, July 25, 2010 9:21 on Tonic.Com It all began in third grade, when Katie Stagliano’s 40-pound cabbage fed 275 homeless people. Now, Katie’s six gardens have produced over 4,000 pounds of vegetables to feed the needy. When Katie Stagliano was in third grade, she planted a cabbage in her family’s [...]

Terminally Ill Boy Becomes an Art Sensation

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By Monique Jessen originally published on tonic.com on Friday, July 2, 2010 9:43 AM ET Leo Haines is only five but he’s already the star of his own art exhibition and he’s donating all of the proceeds to his local hospital. Suffering from Cerebral Palsy and terminal pulmonary vein stenosis, Leo Haines was so sickly [...]