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...went to Harvard Law School and now heads the Alliance for Children's Rights. He chaired a countywide panel that reviewed the state's foster-care record. Last January it concluded that the system in Los Angeles County operates with minimal data on its wards and a safety-monitoring process that is random at best. Some departments are not aware of what others are doing, so a child's safety often relies on guesswork. "Fundamentally," says Bridge, 34, "we've come a very small distance from the days when I was in foster care." In short, he adds, Los Angeles...
...past six years, conservation officers from 45 states and Canada have bought Wolslegel's robotic elk, turkey, deer and bear. Wolslegel glues real animal hides to polyurethane molds, cuts off the heads and installs batteries and robotics, then slides the heads back on. (The very process, oddly enough, that's used to make presidential candidates.) "I'm backed up about 50 orders right now," says Wolslegel. He sells almost half the robots to hunters, who use them as decoys...
...usual bill-paying routine leaves--let's face it--room for improvement. I start by writing a check, a process that really begins with trying to find a check. I riffle through desk drawers looking for an envelope. Then I hunt for a stamp with the proper first-class postage. (Jeez! Hard to believe that dog-eared 29[cents] stamp hasn't been good for nine years.) And then, like everyone else, I wait for the U.S. Postal Service to brave snow, rain, heat and gloom of night to deliver my letter--days later...
Thanks to pop culture, Catholics don't have a monopoly on nuns. The religious sisterhood has been widely appropriated as a vehicle for the comic, the dramatic and the sublime. Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, Sally Field and Audrey Hepburn have all played roles in habits, proving, in the process, that no one looks great in a wimple. But to actually know what God's call sounds like; how feminist nuns manage in the still patriarchal post-Vatican II church; or how liberating it is for some brides of Christ to be untrammeled by children, sex and romantic love--none...
That idea applies neatly to Men of Honor. It is one of those dramas of peacetime military service in which a determined individual attains what he wants--in this case, master-chief rank and to be a master diver in the U.S. Navy--and in the process surmounts his own shortcomings and the completely predictable prejudice and near deadly hostility of the brass...