When adventurer Steve Fossett’s plane went missing over the remote Nevada desert in September 2007, there was no distress signal. But 50,000 people heard a call for help. Without knowing each other or the man they were looking for, they formed an altruistic army of volunteer searchers, unprecedented in size and extraordinary in method.... Read full article

A couple of weeks ago, we told you about “The Gift”: a woman finds an envelope with $770 cash—lost by a frantic holiday shopper on the floor of a toy store—and takes it directly to the police. When police return the money to the grateful shopper, the Good Samaritan thinks the story is over. But it was just beginning.... Read full article

Long after the holiday decorations have been put away and the presents have started to lose their luster, the spirit of the season past becomes increasingly hard to hold on to.

But we found that one woman’s gift to another still sparkled, well into the New Year.... Read full article