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Hayes, 54, didn't set out to be an environmentalist. He grew up in Camas, Wash., a small paper-mill town where the air stank from sulfur fumes. Like most other people there, he loved the outdoor life, but his concern over the damage the mills were doing to his beloved forest was tempered by the realization that the industry was also his dad's employer. Not until his undergraduate days at Stanford in the '60s did he become a rabble rouser, and then his target was not pollution but war: he helped lead more than 1,000 students...
After a half-hour of Marty Feldstein or James Kugel, even the loosest limbed get cramped. But kick hard if you're looking to stretch those legs--this isn't your run-of-the-mill renovated Temple Beth El. Who designed this place...
...mother of six, began taking Ledoux's workshop in Lewiston, she taught herself to type and even went back to school to get a general equivalency diploma. Audet's education was ended after eighth grade so she could care for younger siblings while their parents worked in a mill. She still uses the Smith-Corona she bought in 1990 and keeps it beside her sunny kitchen window...
Tall and silver-haired, with softly reassuring blue eyes, Dr. Patrick Christopher Steptoe looked as if he'd just stepped out of a Marcus Welby rerun. In fact, the kindly doctor was a medical revolutionary. On July 25, 1978, as hundreds of reporters descended on the sleepy English mill town of Oldham, the 65-year-old obstetrician delivered the world's first "test-tube baby," a healthy, 5-lb. 12-oz. girl aptly named Louise Joy Brown. Conceived in a lab dish, or in vitro, from the egg and sperm of a working-class couple who had tried for years...
...Despite what Kovacevich (or John Stuart Mill, for that matter) may believe, cultural background unavoidably skews the development of our mind. But ideally, there should be no trade-off between cultural background and independent thinking. The ideas expressed in the editorial, properly distorted, have been used to silence outside criticism and impose one culture's norms on others under the guise of universal logic. Knowing that this statement will annoy Kovacevich, I must say that, as an international student, I have often felt this pressure...