So, some of our photos got squirrelized, too! Who knew this was such an epidemic?

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This kid is: Find out how you can get prepared for all kinds of events.

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It only takes 1. In the halls here at Red Cross headquarters, I’m hearing the words Hurricane and Andrew together an awful lot.  He’s coming up because we all want to stay on guard in case a storm does get its eye on the US. It occurred to me that maybe you don’t remember the [...]

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This photo is pretty much the internet’s darling right now. The couple in this photo was actually featured on the Today Show this morning to verify that this squirrel really did jump into their shot and they did not photoshop it in. The point? Life is full of unexpected moments. While we’d never want to [...]

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This message was just left for us on our YouTube channel by Cory aka Lifesaver of the Day. Hi, my name is Cory. I am a lifeguard. Today was our busiest day all year. We had ten day camps come and swim, leaving about 150 kids in a pretty small pool (some in, some out) [...]

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Can’t make it to the Newseum in Washington, DC to see the “Our World At War” exhibit? You can see a beautiful sample of the photographs on the Newseum’s website: The International Committee of the Red Cross sent five award-winning photojournalists to eight war-torn and ravaged countries to document how war and armed violence have [...]

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It’s been a long hot summer for health care reform, and even political junkies like me are tired of seeing these combative Town Hall meetings that have generated more heat than light. It seems to me that amidst all the sound and fury we are losing sight of what we are really trying to accomplish, [...]

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In this edition of Cross the Globe, we explore the importance of legal protections in war by visiting a popular ICRC photo exhibit called “Our World at War.” >> Listen Now >> Episodes 1-6 of Cross the Globe You can subscribe to this podcast in iTunes by going to your iTunes Store and searching for [...]

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  Welcome to the Weekly Worldwide Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you… [The place names link to maps so that you can get a quick idea of the region.] PHILIPPINES, TAIWAN, CHINA: Each area’s respective Red Cross societies are busy [...]

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It’s never a good sign when the flight you’ve boarded sounds like a doctors’ waiting room. I didn’t notice it right away when I hopped on a flight from Hartford, Connecticut to Baltimore yesterday. I was busy doing the “nesting thing”, settling in and making window seat 17A my home for the next hour or [...]

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