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  The Million Dollar Health Countdown

  By David Jenison | Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:52 AM ET

  and online appeals, including a $50,000 donation from Olbermann himself. The money will go to sponsoring free health care fairs in Little Rock, Kansas City and New Orleans.Olbermann reached out to the National Association of Free Clinics, whom he praised for conducting a free health fair i Read More

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  Back on the New Homestead

  By Lisa Germinsky | Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:00 AM ET

  that flat screen or premium cable channels.A scenario free of consumer trappings however, is the lifelong dream of Bob and Susan Hobbs of Northland Kansas City – a dream they're about to start living. The couple is selling everything they own and setting up temporary residence in a teepee Read More

  More like this in: Energy, Solar Energy, Eco-Conscious, Self-Sufficient, US, Life & Style, Home & Garden
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  Little Affordable, Sustainable House on the Prairie

  By Ben Corbett | Wed Aug 5, 2009 7:00 AM ET

  of us today."The musical production opens September 9 at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey, launching a 25-city tour that ends in Kansas City, Missouri in June 2010. For each location on the stage show's 34-week itinerary, a minimum $1,500 contribution of the proceeds will go t Read More

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  Aqua Man

  By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:00 AM ET

  Kristena’s 4-month-old baby girl."Everything happened so fast, it's hard to describe what happened. It was just so scary," Blackwell told KCTV in Kansas City.What Blackwell didn’t know was that Petanu and his friend were driving right behind her car when it sailed off the road -- an Read More

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  Good Cooking: Anthony Bourdain

  By Lauren Harper McMenamin | Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:55 AM ET

  Katz's Delicatessen (New York City)10) Etxebarri (Axpe, Spain)11) Sukiyabashi Jiro (Tokyo)12) Hot Doug's (Chicago)13) Oklahoma Joe's Barbecue (Kansas City, Kansas)One last word -- or food for thought, if you will. Anthony Bourdain constantly reminds his audience how hard it was to work i Read More

  More like this in: Health, New York, New York City, Charity, California, London, India, Water, China, Washington, Chicago, Brazil
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  Get Your Earth Day On

  By | Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:00 AM ET

  Check here for a full list of Chicagoland festivities. If you're lurking in other parts of the heartland, check out St. Louis' Earth Day Festival or Kansas City's host of Earth Day activities. Maybe not as epic as D.C.'s festivities, but still pretty cool options for the whol Read More

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