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...invention to the tune of one of Frank Sinatra's enduring hits. "So start today," Collins crooned into a microphone. "Love DNA, and do it ouuuuurrr way." The star of this spoof stood 6 ft. 4 in. tall. He wore cowboy boots beneath his white lab coat and slung a stethoscope round his neck like a wayward tie. And as his last note faded, the delighted audience gave him a standing ovation...
...Christmas morning a nearly frozen John Steward crawled out from the cardboard box across the street from Columbia University. He has lived there for two years, but because it's not a valid address, he can't collect welfare. The lone nickel inside his coat pocket would hardly get him breakfast. But Steward wasn't worried. While he was panhandling for spare change the day before on upper Broadway in Manhattan, someone handed him a booklet of vouchers good for a dollar's worth of food at any of seven local stores. Trading them in for a bagel and coffee...
...excuses." This effort to combat compassion fatigue mainly involves scheduling activities like manning soup kitchens after regular business hours so that potential do-gooders can pitch in. But, Adams stresses, the key is for volunteers to feel they really make a difference in the lives of the downtrodden. The coat drive was ideal. It keeps its promise to give the coats to needy people in a matter of days. Donors can get a warm, cozy feeling inside by simply cleaning out their closets...
...same vision came to Elizabeth Yanish Shwayder, a sculptor from Denver, 11 years ago. Visiting her daughter in Toronto, she learned of that city's annual coat drive, which collects used winterwear and gives it to the needy. In 1982, as Denver suffered through a horrific winter storm, Shwayder brought the concept home. Seven years later, the coat drive had become a Denver institution, and Shwayder decided to go national. Her first target was New York City...
...worked even better than Shwayder hoped. In its first year the New York coat drive distributed 10,000 winter coats. This year the goal is 75,000. The coats are collected in boxes at police precincts and bank branches, at more than 50 companies and at major commuter points like Grand Central station. There New York Cares has set up a display of coats from such celebrities as New York Knicks star Charles Smith (a towering blue worsted) and Mayor-elect Rudolph Giuliani (a staid gray tweed) to tweak the conscience of suburbanites. The coats are turned over...