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...McVeigh's death is broadcast to survivors, will it establish a dangerous precedent? Brenda Bowser, communications director at the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C., doesn't think so - simply because McVeigh's case is so unique. "There have been very few, if any, death penalty cases in U.S. history with so many victims," Bowser told TIME.com. "Thousands of people were directly affected by the Oklahoma City bombing." The sheer breadth of McVeigh's terrorism, says Bowser, makes this crime - and its punishment - different from anything else we've seen...
...Eighties. The spectacular failures of such '80s heroes as Michael Milken and Donald Trump have discredited the era's role models as well. ''The 1980s showed how ugly this country could be, like racism did,'' says April Gilbert, a Stanford M.B.A. and shipping executive who hopes to join a nonprofit company soon. ''In the 1980s I was fed up and almost angry with the behavior of people in this country,'' says Stuart Winby, manager of Hewlett-Packard's Factory-of-the- Future program. ''Those kinds of values are just empty. I'm really sated with gadgets, things, adornments...
...involved with their communities. ''I don't think God puts you on this earth just to make millions of dollars and ignore everyone else,'' says Chris Amundsen of Minneapolis, a commercial real estate expert who took a 34% pay cut when he became the chief financial officer of a nonprofit housing agency...
...that's not all: According to a study released Monday by the nonprofit Josephson Institute of Ethics, almost half of all high school students said they could get a gun if they wanted...
Cost is one barrier. Medicare does not cover hearing aids, nor do most private insurers. Hearing aids range in price from $500 to $3,000 or more. "Here's this thing that's the size of a peanut," says Nicolette Toussaint, 49, communications director for a San Francisco nonprofit organization, "and it costs as much as a used car." Toussaint got her first hearing aid more than 15 years ago. It lasted 10 years--until she left it in the pocket of a pair of jeans she threw into the wash. The replacement cost $4,000. For many people...