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Since the age of six, I have competed year-round in the sport that I love. Swimming, like other athletic pursuits, has its benefits. I have stayed healthy, fit and out of trouble. I've traveled, met and motivated young people my age, and I have learned how to set...
Last year Ford learned a lesson about the limits of soft and fuzzy when the Firestone crisis engulfed the company. Ford instinctively wanted the company to get out in front of the issue. Were there problems with the Explorer? "That was the first question I asked," he says. Some evidence...
Snowdon wasn't out to change the world when he first began visiting the convent of the School Sisters of Notre Dame on Good Counsel Hill in Mankato, Minn. He wasn't even planning to study Alzheimer's disease. Snowdon was desperately trying to find a research project that would...
At Film Workshop, Tsui didn't cuddle or coddle his directors. He fired esteemed auteurs King Hu (A Touch of Zen) and Yim Ho (Homecoming) off their projects; Woo walked out after Tsui re-edited three of his films, including The Killer. "I was not a good producer," Tsui admits...
There are in America today about 2 million Tophs--children currently in kinship care--according to a recent study by the Urban Institute titled "Children Cared for by Relatives: Who Are They and How Are They Faring?" The number has been rising significantly over the past 20 years, and in...