To whom much is given, much is expected.

My heroes have been humanitarians, philanthropists, animal welfare activists, environmentalists

Some of my heroes: Queen Rania, Susan Berresford, Bill and Melinda Gates, Oprah, Muhammad Yunus,
Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Greg Mortenson, Angelina Jolie, Bono.


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Education in the USA ...

"Students in the richest country on earth are in 24th place in math.
That's behind Canada, Germany, France, Korea … but also smaller, poorer
countries like Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.

With a net worth of about $51 billion, Microsoft founder and world's
richest man, Bill Gates, and his wife, Melinda, are determined to use
their fortune to change the crisis in American schools.

Through their influential Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, they are trying
to revolutionize an education...

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On the subject of amateur doctors ...

Pseudo doctors with Google MD degrees abound.
So I take all medical opinions offered on the Internet with a grain of salt.

The problem is that patients can find too much information - and often they don’t have the expertise to make sense of it. People are exposed to story after story on Web sites, BB's and in chat rooms.

That echo chamber of opinion slowly becomes a reality.

There’s much information, and misinformation, in medicine. Especially on the Internet. One major responsibility...

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VEEGS VS. VEGES

Vegans are a subclass of vegetarians.

Vegetarians: Eat no meat, poultry or fish, but might eat eggs or dairy products.

They made up 2% to 3% of U.S. adults in 2003 and 2006 surveys by the Vegetarian Resource Group and
Harris Interactive.

Vegans (pronounced VEE-guns): Eat no meat, poultry, fish, eggs or dairy products. About half of vegetarians described vegan eating habits in the most recent survey.

Celebrities such as actress Natalie Portman and former presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich reportedly...

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Mike Robbins was living out his boyhood dreams as a professional baseball player for the Kansas City Royals. Then at the age of 23, he sustained an injury that ended his career but also gave him a fresh new perspective on life.

"The one regret that I had had nothing to do with any of the games that I had lost or mistakes I'd made on the field—it was just that I didn't fully appreciate it while it was happening," he says.

Appreciate yourself. Appreciating your strengths is the foundation for appreciating life,
Mike says. It shouldn't be confused...

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