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Look at this astounding chart from Flowing Data showing the spike in consumed hot dogs (+buns) at the Nathan’s Hot Dog annual 4th of July hot dog eating contest in the 2000s. Who will win this year? I hear Kobayashi san is on a mission…

Missourian, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie made a $1 million gift through their foundation (apparently called the Jolie-Pitt Foundation) to help kids in war-torn Iraq. The money will be distributed by the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, an initiative that was launched at the 2007 Clinton Global Initiative and co-chaired by Jolie.
The money [...]

Read this article highlighting the pleasant trend of couch surfing, a network (a non-profit org, actually) of nice folks around the world who have a couch open to friendly road warriors. See the link below and also visit www.couchsurfing.com.
Here’s their mission statement:
“CouchSurfing seeks to internationally network people and places,
create educational exchanges, raise collective consciousness, [...]

Now this is a nice deed. Barack Obama is going to help his arch democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, to repay her campaign debts by asking his top donors to put up the money for this pledge.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/06/25/Obama_asks_supporters_to_help_Clinton_pay/UPI-41011214391834/
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Keillor’s kindness impresses a fanGarrison Keillor plays the good guy in Detroit on Father’s Day.Garrison Keillor for father of year? You can make a case, based on this act of kindness by the public radio star. Elliott Zelenak, 12, and a 7th grader-to-be at Dearborn’s Sacred Heart School, listens to radio endlessly and came [...]

A kindness like this is what life's really aboutYet another story about a random person paying for a meal. This happened in Cape May, NJ.

The Columbus Dispatch : Mickelson manages goodwill aceGood guy - and super awesome golfer - Phil Mickelson is at it again with his helping ways. Read this story that came out of the Memorial Golf Tournament a few weeks ago about how he helped a fellow professional athlete out.