Nelson Mandela didn’t know how to fire a rifle when he formed the underground military movement of the African National Congress in the 1950s. For help, he called on Arthur Goldreich, a Jewish South African artist who despised apartheid and had fought in the 1948 war that achieved Israeli independence
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The Future of Innovation: Can America Keep Pace?
“The first step to winning the future is encouraging American innovation.” That was Barack Obama in his State of the Union address last January, when he hit the theme repeatedly, using the word innovation or innovate 11 times. And on this issue, at least, Republicans seem in sync with Obama
Katrina’s Lingering Medical Nightmare
Melinda Amedee was scheduled to have a tumor removed from her kidney at a New Orleans hospital on August 30. She lives far enough away from the city to have missed serious damage from Hurricane Katrina.
Health: Real Men Get The Blues
It wasn’t easy for Bill Thielker to believe it when his doctor diagnosed him as depressed–mostly because he wasn’t terribly sad.
The Teenagers Who Are Making Girls Scout Cookies Better for the Planet
For Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen, it all began with orangutans.
Education: Bold Talk
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The Miami Heat Is Everything a Pro Team Should Be. Seriously
There are two things sports fans love to hate, and the first is the epidemic of selfishness and greed: ball-hogging superstars who care only about their stats and their paychecks, teams that don’t play defense and don’t play like teams, owners with no commitment to winning and no sense of loyalty. Fortunately, the National Basketball Association has a team that defies those stereotypes.
JONAS SALK: Virologist
How many cases make an epidemic? Survivors of the great polio plagues of the 1940s and ’50s will never believe that in the U.S.
A Brief History of the Flag Lapel Pin
Are you currently wearing a flag pin? Yes?
School Head-Lice Policies Must Be Relaxed, Say Doctors
They are miniscule, measuring at most 2 mm to 3 mm long, yet few things induce more panic or fear among parents than head lice. But while an infestation of head lice on a child can be uncomfortable, the critters do not pose enough of a contagious hazard to justify the strict policies that many schools use to keep infected children out of class, according to a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics