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...happens that last week coincided with Take Back the Night (TBTN), a time to raise awareness about sexual and domestic violence, at Duke and UNC. Others have labeled the vigils and protests as melodramatic. Take Back the Night’s goal is to unite, to educate, and to heal. Obviously, the lacrosse players, and others as well, have a long way to go. When we say and do nothing, we show survivors—our friends, our family, and our loved ones—that we are not ready to be supportive and listen, and we show perpetrators that...
...King Jr. was assassinated, Robert F. Kennedy responded with a powerfully simple speech, which he delivered spontaneously in a black neighborhood of Indianapolis. Nearly 40 years later, Kennedy's words stand as an example of the substance and music of politics in its grandest form and highest purpose-to heal, to educate, to lead. Sadly, his speech also marked the end of an era: the last moments before American public life was overwhelmed by marketing professionals, consultants and pollsters who, with the flaccid acquiescence of the politicians, have robbed public life of much of its romance and vigor...
...late to reverse the changes global warming has wrought? That's still not clear. Reducing our emissions output year to year is hard enough. Getting it low enough so that the atmosphere can heal is a multigenerational commitment. "Ecosystems are usually able to maintain themselves," says Terry Chapin, a biologist and professor of ecology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. "But eventually they get pushed to the limit of tolerance...
...course. But it has almost become the standard these days. We used to hear about the power of forgiveness from the pulpit; now we get it as another word for moving on, the constant refrain of daytime talk shows and self-help books. Psychologists believe that forgiveness can heal deep trauma, but the concept has become so commonplace that everybody publicly asks for it, from Bill Clinton (for marital infidelity) to celebrities (for assorted addictions) to third-world countries (for debt). We've become so used to people forgiving that we're disappointed when they can't do it. Occasionally...
Schultz and his partners at the University of Florida slipped into the wound-healing business in a roundabout way. Schultz was studying uncontrolled cancer growth and teaching biochemistry at the University of Louisville in 1985 when a student who had worked in a burn unit suggested that the way cells respond to cancer could point to a new method to help burn victims heal without their wounds becoming infected. The notion intrigued Schultz and led to the invention of his antibacterial bandages 20 years later...