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[VIDEO] Despite India’s explosive economic growth, extreme poverty is still a daily reality for millions.
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Dance companies, from preschoolers to professionals, bring the classic Tchaikovsky Christmas ballet to life. [VIDEO] (more…)

The Foundation for Excellence, a Silicon Valley non-profit, provides scholarships to brilliant students who are among India’s vast poor. (more…)

Helen and Ted Johnson talk about their son Peter who died from complications due to the AIDS virus. (more…)

Participants of the United States labor program known as the Braceros Program which begun during WWII in 1942 and lasted until 1960, recount their experience. (more…)

Robyn Gutierrez has Muscular Dystrophy. Her parents are hoping Wish Book readers will help buy her the special bed she needs. (more…)

Stanford medical students use horses to learn techniques of non-verbal communication. [VIDEO] (more…)

The All Amigos Alano Club has been a safe haven for recovering alcoholics for over two decades. Now they have been asked to vacate their clubhouse to make way for new downtown development. [VIDEO] (more…)

Rocked by the area’s first housing auction last year, Manteca residents in the Paseo West Development tell their stories of lost homes and tough times.
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Trained at the Shenyang Peking Opera School, Madame Lifang Wang and her family continue the tradition in Silicon Valley. [VIDEO] (more…)

Natasha Fite hunts for deer during a program designed to introduce teens to hunting [VIDEO] (more…)

Cheri Blauwet, of Palo Alto, will compete in the Beijing Paralympics. [VIDEO] (more…)