Better All The Time #26

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Welcome to the In Search of Good News edition of Better All the
Time. This time out, we thought we would do a little experiment. Rather than
cherry-picking a few good news stories from numerous sources around the Web –
which is our normal modus operandi — this time we decided to see what a
general web search for good news would yield. We went to the Yahoo! and Google
news sites and grabbed 50 news stories from each. No, we didn’t just grab the
top 50 news stories from each. It would be all too easy to do that and then
bemoan the lack of good news coverage.

Instead, we did a search for "good news" on both the href="http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=%22good%2Bnews%22&sm=Yahoo%21%2BSearch&fr=FP-tab-news-t&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8">Yahoo!
and href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&q=%22good%2Bnews%22&btnG=Search%2BNews">Google
news sites. Having cranked out 25 previous editions of Better All the Time, we
know that good news doesn’t come leaping off the page from a casual perusal of
the headlines. But what happens if you go to the news sites and say, "Hey,
how about a little good news, please?"

What follows is a mash-up of the top 100 results.