The heated debate about whether or not a Moslem Mosque should be built at Ground Zero in New York led me to search and find an old book by one Robert William Fogel, a Nobel Prize winner in economics...
Rip Van Winkle slowly strolled up under the giant shade tree and sat down for a brief nap. As the story unfolded, the brief nap turned into 20 years of sleep and the world passed him by. When he finally awoke, he found a very different world than the one that he had previously known...
Safe Kids USA coalitions are aggressively tackling the problem of young children affected by hyperthermia, or heat stroke, when they are unattended in vehicles on as part of the Safe Kids Buckle Up program.
As a kid, my dad was one of those guys who would sit back and watch quietly as events played themselves out. If I were ever able to figure out a situation, which was not that often, he would stay out of it.