This Friday "The Soloist," a film about a student afflicted with
schizophrenia who grew up to be a homeless street musician - then was
befriended by members of the LA Philharmonic and an LA Times columnist -
will be released.  Meet the real people, hear the music which helps "The
Soloist" stay calm and watch him play various instruments in this story
behind the movie.  http://www.awesomestories.com/flicks/the-soloist    

In addition, during April, we remember the earthquake of April 6th (in
which "a jewel of medieval Italy collapsed"), Mahatma Gandhi (who
"broke" the unfair salt laws by following non-violent resistance), the
San Francisco earthquake and fire (which devastated the city on April
18, 1906), the Chernobyl meltdown (which remains the world's worst
nuclear accident) and "the miracle" at the water pump (when Annie
Sullivan made a startling breakthrough with her pupil, Helen Keller). 
Learn the details of those, and other events, in this summary of April
Highlights. 
http://www.awesomestories.com/newsletters/april-highlights     

Also provided are databases for: 
videos, http://www.awesomestories.com/videos  
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audio-clips http://www.awesomestories.com/audio-clips 
documents http://www.awesomestories.com/documents. 

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Carole Bos
Dean's Advisory Board
Grand Valley State University
bosc at gvsu.edu