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...Obama’s failures are also our failures, especially those of us who worked so hard to get him elected. Far too many of us equated the man with the movement, as if electing a strong candidate was the same thing as effecting social change. And far too many of us have rested on our laurels since the election, satisfied by a job well done and convinced that Obama would make the world right again. But in these troubled times, the man needs his movement back, to ensure that the change we believed in produces the world we want...
They said the goal of their book was to begin a social movement at the grass-roots level, describing the health-related obstacles women face in the developing world, including death and injury during childbirth, sex-trafficking, slavery, denial of education, and malnutrition...
...want to recruit you to the movement,” Kristof said. “Women and girls aren’t the problem. They are the solution...
WuDunn then outlined the “agenda” for the movement, which she said needed to begin by ending sex trafficking through providing education and alternate employment options to women. In approaching change, she said, gradual changes are better than none...
...minivan driven by Andrew Thomas Gallo would have hit Stewart's sports coupe only with a glancing blow. Instead, running a red light, Gallo slammed into the Mitsubishi Eclipse at over 65 m.p.h. "right between the wheels - direct dead center," says Wilhite's father. Meanwhile, a slight quarter-inch movement of Wilhite's vulnerable spinal cord during his rescue by paramedics or at the hospital and he would be paralyzed or worse, says Bhatia. (See "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...