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The Speed-Up “I wanted a union not so much for the money,” said line worker Peter Schmitz, “I wanted a union … to have a little say so about the speed of that line. Like I say you couldn’t do quality work, it just wasn’t possible that you could do quality work the way you […]

Last month the Supreme Court ruled that President Bush’s military tribunals at Guantanamo were illegal – a violation of the United States’ Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and the Geneva Conventions1. The case, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, was brought by Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift of the Navy Justice Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps. Swift recalled joining […]

Two Greenpeace explorers are now trekking across the Arctic Ocean to the North Pole – the first ever such trip during summertime1. The trip is harder and riskier in the summertime, when the seasonal melting of the ice sheet leaves large gaps of ocean water, shaky ice, dense fog and deep slush. The explorers, Eric […]

A fever took Helen Keller’s sight and hearing at the age of one-and-a-half. On March 3, 1887, when Keller was six, a teacher, Anne Sullivan, came to stay at her house. Sullivan taught Keller language by spelling into her hand. Keller wrote about the first word that she understood1: I knew then that “w-a-t-e-r” meant […]

Al Gore was instrumental in rescuing Katrina victims from New Orleans on the fifth day after the hurricane hit and destroyed the city1. Two days earlier, Dr. David Kline and his patients were stranded at Charity Hospital, with food and drinking water running short. Outside was four feet of floodwater and alligators eating corpses. Dr. […]