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...color-blind. We're not going to all eat matzo-ball soup. We're not going to all wear white on white--we're not! But as my Jewish friends would say, We can come and kibitz together...
...Tigers on the Brink About 100,000 tigers roamed Asia at the turn of the century; fewer than 5,000 are left, thanks to loss of habitat and the demand for body parts used as folk remedies and exotic foods (example: tiger-penis soup, popular in Taiwan). The South China tiger is ''biologically unrecoverable,'' say experts, and the number of India's Bengal tigers, the world's most populous subspecies, has declined 26% since 1989, to fewer than...
Cloning David Letterman White guys sitting around talking, wisecracking, introducing nutty comedy bits: Doesn't anybody have any new ideas for a late-night show? Chevy, Conan, Jay and soon Greg Kinnear (from E!'s Talk Soup) are all trying vainly to duplicate Dave. Come back, Joan Rivers, all is forgiven...
Ramsden, 61, is typical of many boomers and preboomers. They want to help make a better world, but they're busy. As for the unpaid work their mothers did--stuffing envelopes, ladling out soup in a church kitchen--forget it. Some, like Ramsden, will donate a few hours to such efforts, but most boomers, most of the time, are unwilling to offer themselves up as just another warm body...
...have carved out their own social-action niches and enlist their own recruits. Aaron Hurst, for example, founded Taproot in 2001 to fill a void he perceived for business professionals who wanted to make a civic contribution. "Five years ago," he says, "volunteer assignments were nearly all direct service: soup kitchens, tutoring kids, stuffing envelopes. Nonprofits were not focused on people contributing their skills...