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Historians heatedly debate who is the best ex-President, but if Clinton keeps it up, there may soon be no argument over who is the worst. Al Gore, on the other hand, is a model ex-Vice President. Minutes after the Inauguration, he quietly repaired to a modest Tudor house in Arlington, Va. He began lecturing to journalism students at Columbia University (ironically, off limits to journalists), and plans to write a book about families. He's betrayed no bitterness, even when he presided over the Electoral College vote. But from his skyscraper, awash in his global celebrity...
...talk of this middle-aged couple is usually contentious; rancor stains the air of their modest North Carolina home. But when Aunt Ruth hears a tune on the radio, she softens into nostalgia. "Do you remember the first time we made love to this song?" she asks. "We were out in that field? You buried me in that grass." But Ruth can't utter a simple sentence without her husband Damascus' hearing blame in it. So he says, "Why is it that every time we start talking, you sound like you gonna...
...patrons, many of whom had never had a bed of their own, were getting their first taste of life in Ngata Children's Home, founded by and named after Kariuki, in Kirinyaga, the small village just north of Nairobi where he was born 63 years ago. The modest building will be both their home and their school until they turn 18. It is part of Kariuki's effort to do good and at the same time boost Kenyan tourism--by taking on a small part of a problem the government has been unable to address: dealing with 160,000 homeless...
...decade he had dreamed of creating a golden rice that would improve the lives of millions of the world's poorest people. At least 1 million children, weakened by vitamin-A deficiency, die every year and an additional 350,000 go blind. Potrykus saw his rice as the modest start of a new green revolution: bananas that wouldn't rot on the way to market; corn that could supply its own fertilizer; wheat that could thrive in drought-ridden soil...
...escape the curse of juniorhood, that terrible first act of hostility that certain men commit against their own sons, that row of hoops set up in the nursery for he who would follow. (Attention, newborn: Be me, or fall short--it's up to you.) For the congenitally modest elder Bush, naming a child in honor of himself may have proved too much, so he pulled up one name shy, an early act of compassionate conservatism...