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thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

In a week filled with bad news, let's look at some good news.

Actor Danny Trejo helped rescue a baby trapped in an overturned car in Los Angeles last Wednesday.

Video shows him at the scene where two cars crashed.

He says he crawled into the wrecked vehicle from one side,

but couldn't unbuckle the child's car seat

from that angle. Another bystander, a young woman, was able to undo the buckle. Together they pulled

the baby safely from the wreckage. That same day, a man who became wedged between rocks in the

Cambodian jungle was rescued after being trapped for nearly four days.

He slipped Sunday while trying to retrieve his flashlight, which had fallen into the small

rocky hollow. His family began searching for him when he didn't return after three days.

After his brother found him, about 200 rescue workers spent 10 hours chipping away at the rock that pinned him.

He was freed and taken to a local hospital.

Why did these stories make the news? People help people all the time. If the unnamed woman in

Los Angeles had rescued the baby without the actor's help. I doubt her story would have made the

headlines. If the man in Cambodia had been lost in a jungle, rather than wedged between rocks,

his rescue probably would not have been reported globally. I also wonder if these stories would

have received so much attention during a week not dominated by mass shootings in their aftermath.

We're attracted to celebrities and unusual events, of course, but when they bring us good news

during hard days, they're especially powerful.

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