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Has our president been devoting more time to the affairs of gophers on the fairway than to his own country? This question arises from President Bush's recent promise to devote one hour of each working day to domestic policy.
There are, of course, intelligent citizens of goodwill who also ignore politics. One of the glories of our society is that they can do so safely. The engineer, chemist or doctor hard put to keep up with the demands of his profession for study and knowledge; the artist, musician or...
"We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there," said the inventor Charles Kettering. In our time, no symbol of the future has sparked more anticipation and mystery than the year 2000. And now the epic moment is close...
The new patient groups are often run not by professionals but by victims of the disease or their close relatives. "It's not your typical eight-hour-a-day job," says former beer salesman Ron Brazeal, executive director of the United Leukodystrophy Foundation, who lost two sons to the disease...
Colby and her husband, William Damon, co-authored Some Do Care: Contemporary Lives of Moral Commitment, a book about people who devote their lives to helping others. Colby and Damon spent five years researching the lives of 23 "moral exemplars."