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Last week, Diana Nyad, 64, completed her longtime goal of swimming from Havana, Cuba, to Key West, Florida, becoming the first person to do so without being in a protective cage.  This followed four unsuccessful attempts, the first being when she was only 28. Her story gives us an opportunity to talk about persistence, for […]

Each day since the April 24 collapse of the building in Bangladesh that housed five garment factories, the death toll has risen. As of this writing, it is over 1100 and may still go up. In one sense, most of us feel far removed from this tragedy, but the work of the people in that […]