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...biggest change for me, however, was not in temperature or scenery, but in role. Last week, for the first time in my athletic career, I became a coach. Of course, my duties are of a rather limited sort. I do not hold wide discretion in running practices, setting lineups, or, really, in much of anything. Nonetheless, my responsibilities differentiate me from the athletes in a way that I had not previously experienced: my position in the motor boat called a “launch,” while often as little as 10 feet away, feels quite a tad more...
...lucky, you’ll live to be a hundred with perfect teeth and a six-minute mile.Yet such optimistic prognosis is not available to everyone.Take, for example, one-year-old Hassan. Admitted a week ago for malnutrition, pneumonia, and anemia, he is now naked, pale, and wide eyed; his frail ribcage is clearly visible through almost translucent skin. I hold his hands to the blood- and urine-stained mattress as a nurse in flip-flops sticks him repeatedly with a needle, trying to transfuse a unit of expired blood.A fly lands on his eyeball and he doesn?...
...message: “Obama insists that liberals must stop pushing religious people away and stop demanding that they leave their religious ideas ‘at the door’ when they enter into a liberal or progressive context.” He proclaimed to a wide audience what many of us progressive Christians had been feeling all along: that our faith motivates us to fight poverty, but we want to do so by appealing to common moral principles that are shared across religions. I couldn’t agree with him more...
...same. General Ben Griffin, the head of Army Matriel Command--the service's central procurement organization for equipment--has dramatically cut the number of meetings, reports and briefings. He installed seven senior officers around the world, in part to track progress on Lean Six Sigma, and gets Army-wide operational updates every week by videoconference rather than in-person meetings. Griffin says his command alone saved $110 million last year, and military sources expect that to be doubled this year...
Shearer's Royal Ballet colleague Margot Fonteyn was by 1948 the world's top ballet dancer. Her grace, sense of drama and ability to remain en pointe for seemingly minutes on end won her wide acclaim (and the cover of TIME). Later, when she was in her 40s, she found new life and a new lover with young Rudolf Nureyev. But her story was gaudier than her renown: the stuff of affairs, abortions, gunrunning for her Panamanian husband, an old age stripped of wealth, burial in a pauper's grave. Tony Palmer's thrilling 2005 documentary brims with pertinent clips...