Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That needs some explaining. The foundation is called the Giraffe Project, and its aim is to recognize people who "stick their necks out for the common good." Risk must also be involved: the chance of losing a job or being ostracized by a community. "Each of these individual acts," says Medlock, "teaches the rest of us important lessons about learning to cope in an unsafe world...
Every month potential Giraffes are scrutinized by ten to 15 of the couple's friends and neighbors. Many candidates spark disagreement, not so much over their causes but over such things as risk and motivation. "What was going on inside the person?" says Graham. "Did the whistle-blower really have an ax to grind? Was the volunteer organizer simply having a good time?" And these heroes must be pure of heart: "We want people who can achieve without resort to meanness...
...recent meeting, Graham opposed the nomination of a New Jersey battered wife who founded a group to help other victims. Said Graham: "The pain of her experience was so far in the past that I don't see what risk she is taking now." He was loudly and raucously outvoted, and an indignant Medlock threw a cushion at her husband. "One man's Giraffe is another's turkey," grinned Medlock...
...accounts are in better shape this year because Graham is holding $1,000-a-day seminars for employees of companies like Seattle's Rainier Bank on how to succeed in business by using the Giraffe qualities of caring, sharing and risk taking. Maybe it's a bit much to expect a bank employee to be as fearless as Giraffe L.C. Coonse, a high school chemistry teacher in Granite Falls, N.C., who discovered that an incinerator was producing toxic fumes and, over community opposition, shut it down. How many of us could live up to the example of Carrie Barefoot Dickerson...
...choice" that more than any other influences long-term health prospects. The Surgeon General's Report urges the public to cut back on saturated fats and cholesterol, mainly from meat and dairy products, and concentrate on fish, skinned poultry, fruits, vegetables and whole grain products. Fat, which increases the risk for obesity, heart disease and cancer, now accounts for 37% of the calories in the American diet, well above the 30% recommended by many health experts...