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Across our network of nearly 7 million members, we reuse 700 tons of material a day--that's the equivalent of what arrives at a midsize landfill daily. There's one less landfill in the world because of this little website...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power of One | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...concept that was able to go viral very quickly. A year after we had set up Freecycle.org we had a million members. Today we move 24,000 items a day, helping everyone from a 92-year-old man who collects bike parts so he can rebuild bikes for children to a kid who has set up an orphanage for unwanted guinea pigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power of One | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO, Spain's Prime Minister, after his nation paid a $3.3 million ransom to Somali pirates in exchange for the release of a Spanish tuna boat and its 36 crew members, who had been held hostage on the Indian Ocean for more than six weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

More than 14% of U.S. families--17 million households--struggled to put food on the table last year, according to a USDA report that found Americans' food insecurity at its highest level since the government started keeping statistics on hunger in 1995. Nearly 7 million households skipped meals or experienced disrupted eating patterns. Most food-insecure households saw adults go without food to shield children from hunger, although 500,000 families reported that their children were also affected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...churches are increasingly vulnerable to less violent crimes such as burglary, robbery and theft. So far this year, the Christian Security Network has tracked more than 1,000 crimes against churches, including 40 violent incidents, 86 arsons and more than 700 property crimes, resulting in more than $25 million in losses. (Even modest congregations tend to have sound systems, televisions and computers that are relatively unsecured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Churches, Beefed-Up Security Is a Mixed Blessing | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

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