No rules, just a goal and chaos. Two teams fought to get a five-foot diameter cage ball across the gym to touch the wall behind the opposing team. My students played this game when I taught high school P E. I enjoyed watching the crush of bodies straining to move this huge ball back and forth....

Facebook is a game-changer. You can say what you want about sites like MySpace, Twitter, or a number of others, but Facebook is the killer app that brought social networking into the mainstream. But social networking is ultimately about community, and not just surfing a website.

The University of Hawaii has a graduate assistant football coach who can’t move or speak on his own. Brian Kajiyama has cerebral palsy. He buzzes the field in a motorized wheelchair. He speaks with a computer-assisted device. Brian joined the coaching staff after defensive line coach Jeff Reinebold took the time to get to know him....

Oberlin College once gave an honorary doctorate to Theodore Steinway—president of the company that crafted the world’s most prestigious pianos. The tribute said, "In one of their concert grands, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds....