http://www.mail.com/subjects/24384-volunteerism.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/24384-volunteerism.html http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2100388-peace-corps-to-accept-same-sex-couples.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Peace Corps says it will begin accepting applications from same-sex domestic partners who want to serve together as volunteers overseas. Peace Corps Deputy Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet says the change will diversify the pool of applicants who want to help improve the quality of education, health care and economic development in ho... Tue, 21 May 2013 16:28:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2100388-peace-corps-to-accept-same-sex-couples.html 2013-05-21T16:28:43Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2086548-texas-firefighters-focused-concern-toxic-gases.html WEST, Texas (AP) — When they saw 30-foot flames licking the sky inside a massive fertilizer plant, firefighters in this tiny Texas town rushed to evacuate nearby buildings and raced to spray water on tanks of chemicals, hoping to prevent a catastrophe. They didn't know, and probably could not imagine, that the plant would soon explode into a deadly fireba... Wed, 15 May 2013 11:32:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2086548-texas-firefighters-focused-concern-toxic-gases.html 2013-05-15T11:32:13Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2081216-taiwan-runs-short-volunteers-military-shift.html TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A Taiwanese plan to end mandatory military service and shift to an all-volunteer force is running into a problem: not enough volunteers. Such forces are generally considered superior to conscripted ones, because those serving want to be there. Taiwan wants to field a leaner and meaner military of 176,000 volunteers by 2015, in place ... Tue, 14 May 2013 02:32:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2081216-taiwan-runs-short-volunteers-military-shift.html 2013-05-14T02:32:57Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2056450-baa-support-attacks-race-overwhelming.html BOSTON (AP) — In the foyer of the Boston Athletic Association headquarters is the Champions' Trophy that documents the winners of the world's most prestigious marathon. It shines from its perch above display cabinets stuffed with shoes, bibs and other artifacts of the organization's 125-year history, the finial atop the silver cup slightly askew. At some ... Wed, 01 May 2013 22:32:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2056450-baa-support-attacks-race-overwhelming.html 2013-05-01T22:32:52Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2056248-peace-corps-volunteer-dies-ghana.html ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — A spokeswoman for the United States Embassy in Accra confirms that a Peace Corps volunteer has died in Ghana. Zainab Mahama declined to provide details. On the Peace Corps website, Peace Corps Deputy Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet identified the volunteer as 25-year-old Danielle Dunlap of Atlanta and said that she had died in Ghana on... Wed, 01 May 2013 16:18:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2056248-peace-corps-volunteer-dies-ghana.html 2013-05-01T16:18:55Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2053510-bangladeshis-turn-rescuers-building-collapse.html SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — The heat in the rubble was sweltering. It closed in on his body like the darkness around him, making it hard to breathe. Working by the faint glow of a flashlight, he slithered through the broken concrete and spotted a beautiful young woman, her crushed arm pinned beneath a pillar. She was dying, and the only way to get her out was to amputate. ... Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:52:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2053510-bangladeshis-turn-rescuers-building-collapse.html 2013-04-30T23:52:08Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2043396-fathers-firefighters-lives-lost-west-texas.html WACO, Texas (AP) — On April 17, an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, leveled part of the small town located some 20 miles north of Waco. Most of the victims were first responders from fire departments in West and other nearby towns that were on the scene trying to control the fire that preceded the blast. With help from relatives, friends, o... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:36:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2043396-fathers-firefighters-lives-lost-west-texas.html 2013-04-25T23:36:50Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2030516-makeshift-memorial-honors-marathons-dead-injured.html BOSTON (AP) — The barricade separating the rest of Boylston Street from the active crime scene that was the Boston Marathon's finish line has become a shrine. Ed Starbuck has become its "unofficial manager." As people step across the velvet ropes to lay a bouquet or write a message on one of the cards laid out in the street, Starbuck's 5-year-old beagle, ... Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:29:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2030516-makeshift-memorial-honors-marathons-dead-injured.html 2013-04-19T08:29:02Z http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/1998654-finals-watch-presidential-shot-top-coach-player.html ATLANTA (AP) — Around the Final Four and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the games. Presidential parting shot The formal question-and-answer portion of his news conference had just ended when NCAA president Mark Emmert looked at a repo... Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:44:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/1998654-finals-watch-presidential-shot-top-coach-player.html 2013-04-04T22:44:59Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1997370-volunteers-prom-special-alaska-students.html SITKA, Alaska (AP) — For girls, proms are all about the dresses. Kayla Wolfe just never imagined what it would take to pick one. First, there was what felt like a million questions. "What kind of dress was I looking for? What size am I? What kind of color? Long or short?" said the 15-year-old freshman at Mount Edgecumbe High School, a state-run boarding s... Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:27:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1997370-volunteers-prom-special-alaska-students.html 2013-04-04T12:27:28Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1936702-volunteer-killed-lion-calif-animal-park.html DUNLAP, Calif. (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine what provoked a lion at an exotic animal park in Central California to attack and maul to death a 24-year-old woman, who had been on the job as an intern there for just a few weeks. Authorities said the woman was attacked and killed when she entered the male African lion's enclosure at Cat Haven ab... Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:25:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1936702-volunteer-killed-lion-calif-animal-park.html 2013-03-07T09:25:54Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1929422-grunting-ohio-zoo-workers-moms-to-gorilla.html CINCINNATI (AP) — Some zoo workers in Cincinnati are going ape over a baby gorilla. They are wearing all-black outfits, grunting affectionately, and generally imitating mother gorillas to help the month-old baby adjust to a new home and get ready for a surrogate mother. Later, they will don hairy vests and carry baby Gladys on their backs, put on kneepads... Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:57:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1929422-grunting-ohio-zoo-workers-moms-to-gorilla.html 2013-03-04T13:57:33Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1885454-snow-buried-communities-seek-help-residents.html BOSTON (AP) — With schools still closed, cars still buried and streets still blocked by the widespread weekend snowstorm, officials around southern New England are asking people to pick up a shovel and help out. In Boston, a "snow angel" campaign is using social media to encourage neighbors and friends to be an angel and help dig out the stranded. Hundred... Wed, 13 Feb 2013 07:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1885454-snow-buried-communities-seek-help-residents.html 2013-02-13T07:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1880032-seagal-ariz-sheriff-train-posses-to-guard-schools.html PHOENIX (AP) — The self-proclaimed "America's Toughest Sheriff" is joining forces this weekend with action movie star Steven Seagal to train volunteer armed posse members to defend Phoenix-area schools against gunmen. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced the controversial plan in the wake of the December Newtown, Conn., school shooting that left 2... Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:00:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1880032-seagal-ariz-sheriff-train-posses-to-guard-schools.html 2013-02-09T16:00:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1866684-snapshots-sandy-group-restores-victims-photos.html NEW YORK (AP) — Of all the images of Superstorm Sandy's destruction, the ones that linger for Florence Catania are the torn, stained pictures that hung on her walls. Her mother's decades-old wedding portrait, her own eighth-grade graduation photo, a snapshot that captured her mom on a carefree teenage day, all damaged in a Sandy-sparked fire at Catania's ... Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1866684-snapshots-sandy-group-restores-victims-photos.html 2013-02-04T14:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861252-ny-inmates-help-build-ice-palace-adirondacks.html SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. (AP) — It's a far cry from breaking rocks in the hot sun on a chain gang. In New York's Adirondack Mountains, inmates break ice on a frozen lake to make a giant winter palace. A work crew from an area "shock" prison camp once again this year helped local volunteers create this mountain village's lakeside ice palace — the shimmering cent... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861252-ny-inmates-help-build-ice-palace-adirondacks.html 2013-02-01T14:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1837324-golden-retrievers-key-to-lifetime-dog-cancer-study.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Jay Mesinger heard about a study seeking golden retrievers to help fight canine cancer, he immediately signed up 2-year-old Louie. He and his wife know firsthand the toll of canine cancer: Louie is their fourth golden retriever. The first three died of cancer. "They all had long lives but were taken by complications from one kind o... Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:01:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1837324-golden-retrievers-key-to-lifetime-dog-cancer-study.html 2013-01-22T12:01:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1833424-obamas-campaign-to-legislative-fights.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's campaign racked up 332 electoral votes and helped the president win a second term. Now it hopes to score legislative victories and build the president's legacy. Throngs of campaign volunteers and staff members gathered Sunday at a Washington hotel on the eve of Obama's Inauguration for a conference that served as... Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:00:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1833424-obamas-campaign-to-legislative-fights.html 2013-01-20T19:00:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1831896-clinton-urges-participation-service-projects.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton urged people to participate in service projects, saying there's a chain of service that links generations of Americans from all across the country. Clinton is the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. On Saturday she spoke at a summit on the National... Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1831896-clinton-urges-participation-service-projects.html 2013-01-19T16:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1823376-volunteers-search-nc-coast-to-rescue-sea-turtles.html RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Slogging through muck and venturing out on kayaks, volunteers along North Carolina's seashore are rescuing sea turtles that become stunned when the water turns cold and get stuck in coastal sounds, unable to save themselves. The sea turtles — typically green, Kemp's Ridley and the occasional loggerhead — tend to be juveniles who get s... Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:06:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1823376-volunteers-search-nc-coast-to-rescue-sea-turtles.html 2013-01-15T23:06:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1809942-arizona-sheriff-launches-patrols-schools.html PHOENIX (AP) — The sheriff for metropolitan Phoenix has launched a plan to have as many as 500 armed volunteers patrol areas just outside schools in an effort to guard against shootings like month's attack at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 people dead. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office said Wednesday that the patrols were launched ... Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1809942-arizona-sheriff-launches-patrols-schools.html 2013-01-09T22:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1804766-mock-mars-trek-finds-down-to-earth-sleep-woes.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Astronauts have a down-to-Earth problem that could be even worse on a long trip to Mars: They can't get enough sleep. And over time, the lack of slumber can turn intrepid space travelers into drowsy couch potatoes, a new study shows. In a novel experiment, six volunteers were confined in a cramped mock spaceship in Moscow to simulate a 1... Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:10:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1804766-mock-mars-trek-finds-down-to-earth-sleep-woes.html 2013-01-07T23:10:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1802570-newtown-sets-up-task-force-to-handle-donations.html NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Chris Kelsey is the tax assessor in Newtown, but for the better part of three weeks, his job has been setting up and organizing a warehouse to hold the toys, school supplies and other gifts donated in the wake of the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary school. Despite the town's pleas to stop sending gifts, Kelsey said trucks have ... Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:00:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1802570-newtown-sets-up-task-force-to-handle-donations.html 2013-01-06T16:00:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1789514-experts-trained-police-needed-school-security.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The student's attack began with a shotgun blast through the windows of a California high school. Rich Agundez, the El Cajon policeman assigned to the school, felt his mind shift into overdrive. People yelled at him amid the chaos but he didn't hear. He experienced "a tunnel vision of concentration." While two teachers and three students ... Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:10:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1789514-experts-trained-police-needed-school-security.html 2012-12-28T17:10:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1788538-volunteers-toughen-up-bobcat-kitten-whos-too-nice.html PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California animal rescue group is trying to help an orphaned bobcat kitten with a problem: She's too nice. The friendly baby bobcat was only a few weeks old and had burned paws and infected eyes when fire crews found her in August while battling a 75,000-acre fire in the Plumas National Forest. They named her Chips, a... Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1788538-volunteers-toughen-up-bobcat-kitten-whos-too-nice.html 2012-12-27T19:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1786284-west-coast-girds-tsunami-debris-winter.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Volunteers who patrol California beaches for plastic, cigarette butts and other litter will be on the lookout this winter for flotsam from last year's monstrous tsunami off Japan's coast. Armed with index-size cards, beachcombers will log water bottles, buoys, fishing gear and other possessions that might have sailed across the Pacific ... Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:48:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1786284-west-coast-girds-tsunami-debris-winter.html 2012-12-25T15:48:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1786104-norad-record-number-calls-to-track-santa.html PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) — Most of the thousands of children who call the annual Santa-tracking operation at a Colorado Air Force Base on Christmas Eve ask the usual questions: "Where's Santa, and when will he get here?" So volunteer Sara Berghoff was caught off-guard Monday when a child called to see if Santa could be especially kind this year... Tue, 25 Dec 2012 07:41:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1786104-norad-record-number-calls-to-track-santa.html 2012-12-25T07:41:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1785132-volunteers-track-santas-progress-answer-calls.html PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) — Most of the thousands of children who call the annual Santa-tracking operation at a Colorado Air Force Base on Christmas Eve ask the usual questions: "Where's Santa, and when will he get here?" So volunteer Sara Berghoff was caught off-guard Monday when a child called to see if Santa could be especially kind this year... Tue, 25 Dec 2012 02:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1785132-volunteers-track-santas-progress-answer-calls.html 2012-12-25T02:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1758948-winter-brings-troubles-displaced-syrians.html ATMEH, Syria (AP) — This tent camp sheltering Syrians uprooted by their country's brutal civil war has lost the race against winter: The ground under white tents is soaked in mud, fights erupt over scarce blankets and volunteer doctors routinely run out of medicine for coughing, runny-nosed children. The 21-month-old battle to bring down President Bashar ... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:14:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1758948-winter-brings-troubles-displaced-syrians.html 2012-12-11T18:14:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1755166-skoreas-porn-fight-like-shoveling-blizzard.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Moon Tae-Hwa stares at his computer, dizzy and nauseous from the hours of porn he's viewed online while his wife and children slept. He feels no shame — only a righteous sense of mission. "I feel like I'm cleaning up dirty things," the devout Christian and family counselor said. Moon is among the most successful members of the "N... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 04:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1755166-skoreas-porn-fight-like-shoveling-blizzard.html 2012-12-10T04:18:00Z