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...Emmy- and Tony-winning actor is no stranger to accolades. The Foundation chose Fishburne for his artistic talent and humanitarian efforts. He has been a UNICEF ambassador since 1997 and has worked to educate youth in Africa on HIV prevention...
...Politics (IOP) in a speech entitled “Rugged Idealism,” which discussed the value of volunteer work and Khazei’s experiences as co-founder and CEO of City Year, a national service organization specializing in full-time, year-long volunteer involvement for youth. Khazei proposed that students participate in a year of volunteer work following high school in exchange for a year’s worth of college tuition payments—an idea he compared to the educational benefits earmarked for military veterans since the end of World...
...Founders have, in fact, become quite "evangelical" about space, says Londoner Trevor Beattie, a self-described "space nut" who has a scrapbook from his youth of the Armstrong's moon walk and the Apollo 13. "You'll get a sense of wonderment from everybody here," says the 47-year-old ad man. "You've got a bunch of believers who are going to make this happen. It's a lifelong dream for people." David Horowitz, a 55-year-old investment manager from Irvine, California, couldn't agree more. "It's changed me. We're doing things we should have been...
...California is not alone. The Australian government announced this week that it also plans to ban the sale of most incandescent bulbs by 2012. Cuba and Venezuela are distributing millions of free CFLs (with Fidel Castro sending out youth brigades to actually swap the new bulbs for the old). Even Wal-Mart is trying to ride the CFL wave, having recently committed to selling 100 million CFLs this year...
With his intelligence, athletic prowess and charisma, it seems that any career path could have been the right one for Barrett. However, his decision to join the Marines was not a difficult one, and was rooted in his youth...