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ROAD TO SAINTHOOD Doctors and theologians will sift through the evidence. If they think the sister's cure was supernatural, Pope Benedict XVI, a vocal advocate for John Paul's canonization, will make the final call...
...past several years, however, Gates has had a far greater and nobler impact on the world through his philanthropy. With an endowment of $33 million, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation gave away $1.55 billion in 2005 alone. From working to cure diseases in the third world to funding improvements in American public schools, the Gates Foundation has established itself as the central presence in worldwide philanthropy...
...idea that we might one day find a cure for cancer seems axiomatic to anyone trying to understand the disease. That was the goal, after all, of the War on Cancer promoted by President Richard Nixon in 1971. But given the enormous complexity and variety of malignancies and the ways they can evolve and migrate in the body, an all-embracing cure is a naive hope. Instead, cancer doctors now appreciate that wayward cells may not necessarily have to be destroyed, just corralled and contained in a safe and tolerable way, often with drugs that are taken for the rest...
...diagnosis is in, what's the cure? A crisis of this magnitude clearly calls for action that is both bottom-up and top-down. Though there is some debate about how much difference individuals can make, there is little question that the most powerful players--government and industry--have to take the lead...
...answers to these questions lie in the story we're being told about America. It's a "can't do" story--as in "We can't save Social Security" or "We can't cure our oil addiction." It embodies a belief in unlimited individual possibilities but severely limited collective possibilities. It is a story of fear, lack of compassion and America-only policies abroad. And it is fundamentally an untrue story about who we are as a people, but it has been repeated so often on TV and in the press that many in the U.S. have come to accept...