Word: frankness
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...Rural Studio has been dubbed Redneck Taliesin South and compared with Habitat for Humanity. Yet the apprentice architects in the studio have more design freedom than students at Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Taliesin studios. And unlike Habitat, which to date has built 100,000 affordable houses, the Rural Studio turns out only a few handcrafted homes, farmers' markets and community buildings each year...
...investigation was ordered by Gen. Eric Shinseki, the Army chief of staff, after Staff Sgt. Frank Ronghi was charged with raping and murdering a Kosovar Albanian girl in January. The Army began to learn of the rot in the unit at Merita Shahibu's funeral. "If they can beat us," senior officers were told about the 3/504th, "they can also kill us." Information contained in the report regarding the "negative command climate" in the unit led defense counsel to seek leniency for Ronghi, who was found guilty of rape and murder and sentenced to life in prison in August...
...That's why we register them," CPD spokesperson Frank Pasquarello said...
...most challenging reform may be to get patients to become their own advocates for better death. That would require frank talk about a somber subject. That's not an entirely unreasonable expectation, reformers contend. They point out that Americans successfully changed birth in the 1960s and '70s by getting fathers more involved and focusing more on mothers' well-being. Byock believes that the boomers, who demanded many of the changes in the way we come into the world, will be equally insistent on changing the way we leave. "The baby boomers are the most self-centered, arrogant, willing...
Dying is one of the few events in life certain to occur--and yet one we are not likely to plan for. We will spend more time getting ready for two weeks away from work than we will for our last two weeks on earth. Consequently, says Frank Ostaceski, who runs a San Francisco home for the dying, "we have more preparation for how to operate our VCRs than...