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All of these things are what educators call teachable moments - a valuable and elusive commodity in the profession that only the best teachers and students know how to exploit fully. The folks at NASA have had two tragic teachable moments of their own - in 1986 and 2003. So far, they...
America, like Europe, will eventually adopt more private roads and tolls. But the U.S. needs to adopt a new mindset as well. Infrastructure is a matter of homeland security, a concept that Dwight Eisenhower understood when he started the federal highway system during the cold war. The healthier a locale...
After an early screening, attended by Rogen, who co-wrote it, and Apatow, who produced it, a young guy stood up in the audience to address the filmmakers. "I love this movie," he said. "I'm here with my future wife, and we learned a lot tonight." The new model...
And we wondered, too, how all that time in the White House changed Graham. What temptations did he face, what compromises did he have to make to preserve his access to the Oval Office without becoming a serial prisoner of the men he informally served? In our conversations over the...
As they were preparing an excerpt from their book, editors Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy asked Billy Graham to reflect on what he has learned and what has changed since the death of his wife Ruth on June 14.