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...last thing Haiti needed. A 6.1-magnitude aftershock struck the country shortly after 6 a.m. on Jan. 20, barely a week after the capital Port-au-Prince was flattened by a massive earthquake that killed as many as 200,000 and left 1.5 million homeless. Aid groups fear that the tremor--the worst of the dozens of aftershocks that have hit Haiti since the quake--could hinder the delivery of food and water. About 4,000 additional U.S. troops have been pledged to Haiti to help deliver aid, bringing the total...
Doing Well by Doing Good So Hollywood took keen notice of the recent breakthrough of The Blind Side, an inspirational that in two months has earned around $230 million at the domestic box office on a paltry $29 million budget. It's the story of NFL rookie Michael Oher and the wealthy white woman who eight years ago saved the young Michael from a forlorn life on the streets, adopted him and encouraged him to play football. A canny mix of violent sports (for the guys in the audience) and do-gooder heart (for the women), The Blind Side...
...graying population. But the big story roiling beneath the surface is the psychological crisis among middle-aged siblings who are fuming or fighting over issues involving their aging parents. According to a new survey by the AARP- and MetLife-funded National Alliance for Caregiving, an estimated 43.5 million adults in the U.S. are looking after an older relative or friend. Of these, 43% said they did not feel they had a choice in this role. And although 7 in 10 said another unpaid caregiver had provided help in the past year, only 1 in 10 said the burden was split...
...When you consider we transport 1.2 million people a day on our system, the number of crimes that occur on our system is incredibly low,” said Joseph O’Connor, deputy chief of the MBTA Transit Police...
Such lack of output is no longer acceptable. "They were reasonably pathetic performances," says Roger Jackson, a 1964 Olympic rowing gold medalist and CEO of Own the Podium, an organization that has received about $109 million in government and private funds over the past five years to develop athletes for the Vancouver Olympics. "I can tell you that we're going to have several gold medals this year," he says. "I guarantee it." Whoa. Is a Canadian really issuing a freewheeling, Joe Namath-style guarantee? "It's a nice word, isn't it?" says Jackson...