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...plant, Sprague’s completion of the Antarctica marathon in March highlighted the global nature of her philanthropic mission to run a marathon on all seven continents. Beginning in Beijing in October 2006 and ending in Queensland, Australia this past July, Sprague holds the record as the youngest person to run 26.2 miles on every continent...
...first glance, President-elect Barack Obama's pick for his Secretary of Homeland Security looks a lot like the person currently holding the job. Governor Janet Napolitano is a former prosecutor who cares more about immigration and border security than almost anything else. But Napolitano will be very different from Secretary Michael Chertoff in two major ways. First, she is a notch to the left of Chertoff on immigration matters, having repeatedly criticized the building of a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border and having opposed state bills targeting illegal immigrants. Still, as governor of Arizona, she knows more about...
...exchange of ideas among different nations—as well as between academia and business—to generate new insights. “This is a problem that is so great in terms of the challenges it presents—scientifically, economically, and most important politically, that no person and no institution has cornered the market on wisdom,” he said...
...that doesn’t mean that people haven’t said negative things,” Zeckhauser said. “But public discussion has been overwhelmingly positive and that sort of suggests that the nation is in a difficult situation and we need the best person we can get.” —JUNE...
...Whatever is good, whatever is true, whatever is just, whatever is gracious, whatever is worthy of praise, that I’ll commit myself to do,” Ibrahim said. “Even if that is one person, one issue, I will do that...