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...MondayMorningInsights.com Editor Todd Rhoades precits that electronic giving will inevitably grow. "I often hear people say that the only check they still write each month is to the church," he says. "It seems that everything else has gone electronic; the church will follow...
...added that an experience that solidified their friendship—which started freshman year—demonstrated this sense of caring. Hadar, an international student, spent her first winter break away from Harvard alone in New York during a blizzard, and Stein made the effort to call her to check in, despite being home in Miami with his friends and family...
...Constitution requires a grand jury to indict a suspect before he can be tried for a federal felony, and about half the states have a similar setup. This panel of ordinary people is supposed to check the prosecutor's power by making him present a preliminary case in a kind of minitrial, though one without a defense attorney. But because the prosecutor gets to decide which witnesses to call and which questions to ask, Davis wants to make the process less one-sided by requiring prosecutors to tell jurors about evidence that helps the suspect...
...families in San Pedro de Casta to save fuel and keep harmful smoke out of adobe homes. The project was the brainchild of municipal officials. "We never go in and say that we had this idea, and we want to do this," McCall explains. Instead, she and other leaders check in with the locals to see what the community needs, then dispatch volunteers to do the legwork. Voluntourism supporters are quick to point out indirect benefits too. "Americans don't have the best reputation in the world right now," says Doug Cutchins, director of social commitment at Grinnell College...
...practice of determining the value of a treatment by seeing what happens to the patients you do it to. (The shiny new label aside, it's the way we've always done things in medicine.) Then "patient satisfaction" emerged as a relevant outcome parameter - or, the thing you check to see if the intervention was actually a good idea. That seemed reasonable too - is there a better goal than having a happy patient? From there, it was only a side-step to "customer satisfaction." Just like they talk about in ads for car dealerships...