Idol Charity Expected to net $100 Million, by Derrick J. Lang, AP

American Idol, and just about everyone else in Hollywood was in a very giving mood..."It's all about getting people to call in and do something" said fourth-season Idol winner Carrie Underwood. Beneficiaries this year include Save the Children...  Full article

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New York Times, "Ex-Senator to Lead Global Drive on Children's Health," by Celia W. Dugger.

(Sept 7, 2007) Bill Frist, the Tennessee Republican who retired this year as Senate majority leader, announced yesterday that he would lead a drive by the charity Save the Children to make the preventable deaths of millions of children in the developing world an issue for Americans. ... Mr. Frist, who will teach a course on global health this year at Princeton University, said he planned to devote the next decade of his life to improving the survival odds of children and mothers in the developing world, joining other retired politicians working on global health... Full article