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There's always a hand out-stretched begging for cash for a cause, it seems. And you probably rarely, if ever, give.

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Many American youngsters are not getting enough physical activity and parents are failing to make their children's health a priority, according to a new study.

New research suggests that new parents' unhealthy lifestyles can be traced to their children

It's the fashion these days to blame teachers for everything that is wrong with American education. But teachers are still the people in our schools every day, and they know what our schools are lacking. That's the premise of DonorsChoose.org , a website where teachers can ask for specific items for their classrooms, and users can give them money to buy those items.

After being divorced for decades, Terry DeMeo and her ex-husband reunited when she became his caregiver as he was dying.

A new $29 million Defense Department project makes viewing military intelligence from Afghanistan as easy as ordering a movie from Netflix. The Department of Defense is unveiling a Netflix Instant-style system for military intelligence that will allow military personnel around the world to view war-zone footage. Called the National System for Geo-Intelligence Video Services (NVS), the closed-access system will be accessible only by American and coalition troops and military employees.

New research suggests that new parents' unhealthy lifestyles can be traced to their children

Photograph by Benjamin Lowy Opportunity: After fleeing marriage to a Taliban husband, Samiya Amiri found work--and the beginning of a new life--as a renewable-power engineer.

One of the top worries for parents of kids with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the long-term consequences of this condition. "Families want to know, 'So what does this mean?'" says Alice Charach , head of the neuropsychiatry team at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. [More]

Q&A websites are plagued with problems that few have yet to solve. Social Media Q&A is all the rage: Facebook just upgraded its questions feature , TED launched a website for its own community, Quora has culled a suprising response from experts, and firebrand Congressman Anthony Weiner held a marathon Twitter session on the anniversary of the new healthcare law

Study shows Hispanic moms vastly underestimate their own weight and their children's

Last night, Zynga brought virtual reality to real life. At a press event in New York City, the social gaming giant erected highly detailed sets for its most popular games, including a pastoral landscape complete with watering cans and crates of actual FarmVille apples; a dusty old-western saloon for FrontierVille; and an upstairs speakeasy with bartenders serving 1920s-style cocktails in honor of Mafia Wars

It’s only a matter of time--in fact, they’ve already started cropping up--before reality-challenged individuals begin pontificating about what God could have possibly been so hot-and-bothered about to trigger last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. (Surely, if we were to ask Westboro Baptist Church members, it must have something to do with the gays.) But from a psychological perspective, what type of mind does it take to see unexpected natural events such as the horrifying scenes still unfolding in Japan as "signs" or "omens" related to human behaviors? In the summer of 2005, my University of Arkansas colleague Becky Parker and I began the first experimental study to investigate the psychology underlying this strange phenomenon

This year DonorsChoose.Org made our list of The Most Innovative Companies . We speak to CEO Charles Best on how he applies a "best of breed e-commerce" approach to transforming public education.