Free Rice – Play and Help the Starving – on FreeRice.com
Free Rice – play and help the starving – on FreeRice.com – FreeRice is a charity website where users play a vocabulary game in order to raise money to fight world hunger. ————————————- “What if just knowing what a word meant could help feed hungry people around the world? Well, at FreeRice it does . . . the totals have grown exponentially.” – Washington Post “Addictive, yes. But . . . each correct answer results in the donation of rice to help feed the hungry around the globe. Perhaps that qualifies the game as a good addiction . . . one with redeeming qualities, something that’s, oh, didactic and edifying.” – Kansas City Star “People from all walks of life and from around the globe have written in to express their appreciation for the game . . . Secretaries admit to playing it during boring business meetings.” – Christian Science Monitor “FreeRice.com is one of the most ingenious websites of 2007. In the best spirit of the Internet, it offers education, entertainment and a way to change the world ? all for free.” – Los Angeles Times “Web game provides rice for hungry . . . FreeRice went online in early October and has now raised 1 billion grains of rice [by November 9].” – BBC News “Freerice.com is an international, viral sensation. Folks from Thailand to Germany and India are just as enthusiastic . . . improving thousands of lives, all with a simple, collective, click of a mouse.” – CBS Evening News “Every grain of rice is essential in the fight against hunger . . . FreeRice really hits home how the Web …
High or dry? Staying sober for New Year's Eve
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Occasional drinkers fail to moderate, and addiction programs around the country note upticks in patient loads soon after the new year, high season for relapsers and those seeking treatment for the first time. “Alcohol is often center stage at holiday …
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2012 was a year of risk-taking for KC's theater community
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Kansas City Actors Theatre tried something interesting with its “Summer of Mystery” by staging two very different takes on the parlor murder mystery genre. The company played it more or less straight with Agatha Christie's “The Mousetrap” and then …
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