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Central Seattle in the early 1960s was not a land of easy opportunity for Delno and Ida Raines, or for the six children they raised in the house that Delno built from the remains of one the highway department planned to demolish. They named their fourth child Frank Delno, after his uncle and his father, but someone at the hospital misrecorded it on his birth certificate as Franklin Delano Raines, a name he has since come to use formally...
...memories are not eroded by the years--they just burn brighter in the mind of Peter Cecil Jones, who saw Steve Biko led to his death. He remembers the summer night in August 1977 and the roadblock on the highway in the eastern Cape, 80 miles from Port Elizabeth. He hears his friend's calm reply to the police officer's question, "Who are you, big man?": "I am Steven Bantu Biko." He recalls the long, fearful hours in a holding cell, where he and Biko destroyed a secret document by eating it. He remembers the handcuffs and leg-irons...
...doesn't really matter, it's not like you're asking me whether you should run out into the middle of the highway, it's just a decision about your concentration," exclaimed an assistant professor in the economics department as I sat in his office sometime last year wondering aloud whether I truly belonged in economics. I had suggested that maybe I should give up economics after a couple of mediocre academic experiences and switch to social anthropology, a field which sounded interesting at the time but about which I knew absolutely nothing...
...matter how technological our world becomes or how connected we are to the information highway, nothing can replace the human touch in our lives. Although I have been gratified by a successful career in politics, it is my four children who give me my greatest pleasure. Their raw, untechnological smiles are more engaging than the potential for the digital age. I appreciate how our world is changing and advancing, mostly for the better, because of people like Gates. However, we must never forget the human element. LAURIE BLACK San Diego...
Sources--GOOD NEWS: New England Journal of Medicine; Journal of the American Medical Association; Food and Drug Administration BAD NEWS: Journal of the American Medical Association; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; National Institutes of Health...