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Aug 24, 2003
 | In the late 1960s, when national headlines were full of reaction and dissent, historian Daniel Boorstin drew a line between the words dissent and disagreement. “Disagreement prompts debate,” Mr. Boorstin said. “Dissent means to pull apart from the others. People who disagree can still stand together. Dissenters walk away... |
Aug 10, 2003
| In 1941, Sergeant Ward, of the Royal Air Force, climbed out on the wing of his Wellington bomber. At 13,000 feet, he had only a rope tied to his waist. He smothered the starboard-engine fire and returned to the aircraft cabin. When Winston Churchill summoned Ward to No. 10 Downing Street, the low-ranking flyer was dumbstruck before the prime... |
Aug 03, 2003
 | Joan was a new volunteer in a major hospital ER. She didn’t expect a standing ovation—but sometime during that first rough evening, she expected someone to thank her. But no one did. Amid victims of shootings, drug overdoses, construction accidents, and car wrecks—she was ignored. In the crowded halls and hospital rooms, she had to help... |
Jul 13, 2003
| A beautiful Hollywood couple was on the Phil Donahue show. The dazzled audience thought they were the picture of true and lasting love. But compare that to an elderly man whose once-beautiful wife lived the last five years of her life with cancer—bald and bloated. Her husband said, “I slept alone those years and spent hours holding her hand,... |
Jul 06, 2003
| John Gruden is the coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He likes to max out as a person, and he wants his players to max out too. That’s Gruden’s way of saying he wants to reach his full potential and for those around him to reach their full potential too. To achieve that lofty goal, it’s necessary to give maximum effort, to commit to the task, to... |
Jun 29, 2003
| In his book, Lucky Man, actor Michael J. Fox tells the story of his battle with Parkinson's disease. Just after surgery to still the tremors in his left hand, he noticed new tremors, ever so slight, in his other hand. "What am I going to do now? After all I'd been through . . . I was going to do what I've been doing... |
Jun 15, 2003
| I was 14 when I made my first speech without using notes. Wanting to do something humorous, I decided to imitate a very funny sketch that I had seen in a Mickey Rooney movie. From Mickey Rooney, it was great. From me, it fell flat. After that fiasco, only the grace of God could have gotten me back on the public platform. But I did learn... |
Jun 08, 2003
| An industrious little creature lives in pastures all over Texas. Always busy, moving stuff from place to place, this guy is constantly working. I’m talking about the Texas Dung Beetle—the tumblebug. You may have seen one of them pushing little piles across the ground. Texas artist Garland Weeks captures the work ethic of the tumblebug: “You... |
May 04, 2003
| Ralph Waldo Emerson is a well-known early American poet and philosopher. Once, when he was a child, he watched as a man sawed and cut up wood. Although the job was beyond the little boy’s strength, young Emerson wanted to help. After considerable thought, he said to the woodsman: “May I do the grunting for you?” The book of... |
Apr 27, 2003
| Jacob Davis, a tailor in Reno, had a customer who constantly tore the pockets of his pants. Davis tried a creative solution. He placed rivets on the corners of the pockets—and also at the base of the fly. The process worked so well that Davis wanted to patent it. Needing money, Davis contacted his friend and fabric supplier about the... |
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