Old-Fashioned Reading
A Man of Color
In prison, he explained, almost everything was gray: the stone buildings, the sand and crushed seashells, the dull khaki uniforms.
"Then came freedom and the lifting of the dark hood from my eyes," he said of his release from prison. "I could not get enough of this looking at, feeling, and touching this recovery of the experience of color."
Waging War in Iraq -- Against Polio
A Moooving Way to Help Hungry People
Heifer Project International (HPI) provides income-producing animals to people in nearly 40 countries. Shoppers "buy" an animal in honor of a friend or relative and send the recipient an attractive card describing the gift of hope being given in his or her name.
Gifts of animals, such as chicks, goats, sheep, rabbits, pigs, fish, bees and heifers, along with training in their care, are given to low-income families around the world. Gift-givers can provide egg-bearing chickens for hungry kids in Kenya, or a milk-producing goat for a family in Peru.
The prices are reasonable. For example, chicks are only $20, and a heifer is $500.
Every family who receives your gift will give one or more of its animal's offspring to another family in need.
Walter Cronkite is greatly impressed by the work of Heifer International and sees it as part of a global solution to world strife.
For more information: www.heifer.org
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