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Church expands flock on Facebook
(CNN) – The church has never be an organization accused of keeping up with the trends, but now places of worship are using social networks like Twitter and Facebook to expand their flock.
Church 2.0: where followers are believers. Our Carol Costello looks at how one church is expanding its flock – on Facebook.
TV series follows real-life search for runaways
(CNN) – The numbers are staggering. Each year, between one-and-a-half and three million young kids run away from home.
A former New York police detective has made it his job to track them down and his investigations are now the subject of a new TV series called "The Runaway Squad."
Joe Mazzilli, the founder and team leader of "The Runaway Squad," joined us on Friday's American Morning, along with with Vinny Lopez, who was rescued by the runaway squad, and Vinny's father, Israel Lopez.
Is Apple's new gadget a game-changer?
(CNN) – There's just one day now until Apple's iPad is released, but the reviews are already in. The Wall Street Journal is calling it a "wicked fast" "lap-top killer."
The New York Times is not too happy with its touch-screen keyboard or lack of a camera, but still calls it "deeply satisfying" and "goof-proof."
We got a preview of Apples iPad on Friday's American Morning with Arik Hesseldahl, senior technology reporter for businessweek.com.
Read more: iPad meets its critics
Mixed messages from climate review panel
(CNN) – They were the e-mails read around the globe, leaked communications from a scientist. Skeptics called them proof of a conspiracy to mislead the public into believing in global warming.
Now, the first formal investigation into Climate-gate is over. To break down these developments we were joined on Friday's American Morning by Michael MacCracken, chief scientist for climate change programs at the Climate Institute, and Stephen Mcintyre, editor of climateaudit.org.
Health concerns during flood cleanup in RI
(CNN) – Parts of Rhode Island are still very dangerous today. The water is finally beginning to go down after three days of torrential rain and record flooding, but health officials are warning that the filth left behind could make people sick.
Homeland Security Sec. Janet Napolitano will visit the state today to survey the flood damage and talk to local leaders. Our Allan Chernoff has the report from Warwick, Rhode Island.
Once a rising star, chef now feeds hungry
By Danielle Berger, CNN
Madurai, India (CNN) - Naryanan Krishnan was a bright, young, award-winning chef with a five-star hotel group, short-listed for an elite job in Switzerland. But a quick family visit home before heading to Europe changed everything.
"I saw a very old man [eating] his own human waste for hunger," Krishnan said. "It really hurt me so much. I was literally shocked for a second. After that, I started feeding that man and decided this is what I should do the rest of my lifetime."
Krishnan was visiting a temple in the south Indian city of Madurai in 2002 when he saw the man under a bridge. Haunted by the image, Krishnan quit his job within the week and returned home for good, convinced of his new destiny.
"That spark and that inspiration is a driving force still inside me as a flame - to serve all the mentally ill destitutes and people who cannot take care of themselves," Krishnan said.
Krishnan founded his nonprofit Akshaya Trust in 2003. Now 29, he has served more than 1.2 million meals - breakfast, lunch and dinner - to India's homeless and destitute, mostly elderly people abandoned by their families and often abused. FULL STORY
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