Over the past year, you have probably heard a thing or two about CrossFit, a strength and conditioning program based on constantly varied, high intensity, functional movements. From professional athletes to fitness enthusiasts looking for a new challenge, CrossFit is gaining popularity worldwide. In late 2011, CrossFit Jai, a new Denver CrossFit gym, […]
Pads Sudan: An interview with founder, David Wakoli
Pads Sudan: An interview with founder, David Wakoli By Jackie O’Neal Pads Sudan is a non-governmental agency whose mission encompasses launching initiative to work toward the betterment of girls and women. The education of girls is a focal point of their mission. Illiteracy, forced marraige, and the lack of affordbale sanitary pads […]
“They hung with us”: Race and Community in a New Orleans Health Clinic
In broken mirror pieces reads a sign, “Common Ground Health Clinic,” above the door where nearly forty patients a day visit this converted convenience store on an Algiers street within two blocks of the Mississippi river. Up a ramp and inside is a pristine waiting room with twenty-five chairs and along the short hallway is […]
On the Importance of ‘Us,’ and Our Embracement Waiting in the Wings
As our ongoing economic difficulties continue to haunt us — with no actual resolution as yet in sight — a fundamental philosophical query is surfacing, one that’s soon to demand a simple yes or no answer: “Do people matter?” by Donald Croft Brickner There is no feeling in the world that quite rivals […]
Educating Our Kids : The Sarva Shiiksha Abhiyan
A school that I visited last week in Dehradun awakened me to one of the many changes that are quietly taking place in the country. The school, which usually fell silent after the last student had left for home in the afternoon, is buzzing with activity all through the day. Till the evening shadows lengthen, […]
The Structural Nuts and Bolts of The Great Leveling, Revisited
Some 13 months ago I first posited an oncoming phenomenon I identified as The Great Leveling — which referred to a four-to-six-year-long series of crises in America and abroad that were all tied to addiction, and featured a mass downward spiral leading to two more results: hitting bottom and then embracing a far-too-long absent Humility […]
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