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...things through a haze created by our own limited personal worldview. To get to the bottom of whether a given idea has any real merit outside our own heads - or outside the lab or conference room, where a team may have been sweating over it - Sindell recommends continually asking, "Why?" As in, "Why is this a good idea?" To each subsequent answer, he says, ask "Why?" again, until you've gotten down to the bedrock that underlies your assumptions. Then look at your idea again. Is it still breathing...
...Ask Brent Boyd, a retired offensive guard for the Minnesota Vikings, who receives Social Security disability benefits for head trauma sustained while playing football, but was refused similar recompense from the NFL. Testifying in 2007 at a congressional hearing on NFL retirement benefits, Boyd described the NFL's process as "delay, deny and hope I put a bullet through my head to end the problem." Of the 8,000 living NFL retirees, slightly more than 300 receive disability benefits...
...Indeed, ahead of Pelosi's arrival in Beijing, there were signs that the issue still inflames passions. News footage shot outside a Beijing train station showed hundreds of petitioners - people who regularly come to the capital to ask the central government to right injustices they face at home - protesting on the street. One group held up a sign that read, "Welcome Pelosi. Pay close attention to human rights...
...Lieutenant Dan Choi, an Arabic-speaking Iraq War veteran who is the first soldier to be dismissed from the Army under Obama, will be standing outside with Jacobs and others to urge the President to take action. "So much is coming from California right now," says Jacobs. "Don't Ask Don't Tell is really hurting American national security. This lieutenant is a West Point graduate, served in the Triangle of Death [in Iraq], and is now being fired, kicked out of the Army, because he went on the air and said he loves...
That's exactly what's on the minds of people on the other side. They have already begun to gather signatures and hope to ask voters to change their minds in 2010. After that, somebody may want to take George's advice and think though whether it makes sense to be able to change the constitution so easily in California...