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...commend her for a lifetime of work helping those less fortunate. She has used her position as a legal expert and public servant to improve the American family and the lives of children. How unfortunate that her accomplishments have been overlooked in a climate of negativism. Because she has forsaken the safe projects of former First Ladies and tackled more controversial issues, she has come under heavy criticism, as did Eleanor Roosevelt more than a half-century ago. Her book, It Takes a Village, has inspired many acts of kindness. She will be remembered as one of America's most...
Although many seismologists have all but forsaken their "Holy Grail"--accurately predicting when and where an earthquake will strike--a new generation of scientists has taken on the challenge of deducing the precise structure and motion of the earth's mantle and core. They are using data collected by 100 stations around the world and shared in digital form over the Internet...
...paid staff members, and it is out to retake male responsibility--and re-establish male leadership--in a country that it sees as badly detoured from a godly and natural course, falling into the snares of poverty, illegitimacy, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency and disease because American men have forsaken Christian values...
...Justice's public-integrity section in the aftermath of Watergate, Radek supervises Ingersoll's team. An even-tempered, down-to-earth Chicago native, he is known for his street savvy, lawyerly acumen and good judgment. After suffering a heart attack in the early 1990s, he has slimmed down and forsaken the cheap cigars whose stench once pervaded the office. He is passionate about golf (but has little time to play), and his Elvis impersonations for the public-integrity support staff at Christmas are legendary...
...lint whose death toll was presently 39. I shared my disappointment with a companion, but her reverence was incorrigible. Others, too, seemed mesmerized and hypnotized by a cosmic aura of awe and amazement. I began to feel a little inadequate. Perhaps I was missing something. Perhaps I was forsaken a once-in-an-eon opportunity that I would later lament. Or, perhaps the emperor was as naked as the day he was born...