Feel Good Friday

“The ensuing scramble saved the life of the Marine Corps commandant, a father of two who had stepped into his new role on the Joint Chiefs of Staff just three months earlier. Smith, who turns 59 in June, suffered cardiac arrest at the tail end of his run, just a block from his home at Marine Barracks Washington — a crisis in which the speed and quality of medical intervention proved vital.” WaPo (Gift Article): On a D.C. sidewalk, a race to save a Marine general’s life.

+ “Opal Sandy was treated shortly before her first birthday – and six months on, can hear sounds as soft as a whisper and is starting to talk.” Pioneering gene therapy restores UK girl’s hearing.

+ “As the school year ends, many students will be only too happy to see math classes in their rearview mirrors. It may seem to some of us non-mathematicians that geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form of torture, so imagine our amazement when we heard two high school seniors had proved a mathematical puzzle that was thought to be impossible for 2,000 years.” Teens come up with trigonometry proof for Pythagorean Theorem.

+ Drive-thru food pantry in Southern California food desert provides consistent source of groceries for thousands: “It’s a labor of love.”

+ Connecticut rescue workers rappel into rock quarry to rescue missing dog. (So far, the dog has been unwilling to name the cat that pushed him.)