It was during the Christmas holidays 14 years ago, and George, who is now a first-year student and basketball standout at Eckerd College, was in kindergarten at a Tampa elementary school. He had gotten quite a few toys underneath the tree that year, but then he learned of a family with several children who wouldn’t have a Christmas. So George asked his parents if he could give his toys to the family. “It kind of went from there,” he says now.

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Charisma Osborne could not be stopped on Friday night in No. 7-ranked UCLA's win over the Cal Bears in Berkeley, Calif.

The graduate student had her fifth career 30-point game finishing with ?. She also set season highs in points, field goals made (14), and field goal attempts (20).

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Minghella’s ****** erfly was a stunning success, lauded to the skies by critics, setting Gelb’s tenure off to a flying start and having audiences begging for more. But that was not to be. There was no more. This was Minghella’s only opera. Two short years later the director was tragically struck down at the age of 54 by a stroke while undergoing surgery for throat cancer. A huge talent snuffed out far too early.

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They could be doing the school run or in the middle of lambing, but when their pager goes off volunteer and retained firefighters across Scotland drop everything.

In an average time of five to eight minutes, they can respond to building fires, road accidents, wildfires and medical emergencies.

In many remote and rural communities teams of these highly-trained volunteers could be the difference between life

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