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Kidder has just published the results in Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World—an account as challenging as it is edifying. His latest non-fiction book is really two works in one: alongside the litany of Farmer’s achievements, recited with his usual eye for detail, Kidder unflinchingly explores the moral and emotional complexity surrounding the book’s creation...
Redd may have big dreams, but she works hard. Hers is a uniquely endearing egomania. Maybe it’s because her ambitions and quest for self-improvement are so unabashed and giddy, or because she is genuinely excited about just about everything, that it’s hard to dislike...
...American dream may be home ownership, but the American obsession is losing a few pounds. Artificial sweeteners are a big part of that quest: on average, each of us downs more than 20 lbs. of fake sugars a year. That raises two important questions: Are they safe? And do they help you lose weight...
...invasion may have intimidated Syria into being more compliant toward U.S. demands, there's mounting evidence that Iran and North Korea have taken the opposite lesson to the one intended by the Bush Administration. Rather than backing away from weapons of mass destruction, both may instead have accelerated their quest for nuclear weapons so as to avoid going the way of Saddam. North Korea swears it already has them, and Washington faces few good policy options as it goes into six-way talks on the issue later this month. Iran denies it, but there is mounting evidence that Tehran...
...given a moment's thought to retiring. The idea presented many appealing possibilities, however, like taking the long, leisurely trip to Barcelona that I'd been dreaming about. But before I could take that journey, I had to embark on another--a crash course in retirement finances and a quest for an adviser I could trust to help set up my retirement portfolio. My journey was bumpier than expected. And I arrived only after gaining a painful education...