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Sports: Perfect Game
With the help of Rotarians, kids with disabilities have a league of their own. The ball skips through the infield. The batter, Hillary Barber, takes off for first base. She rounds first and second at...
View ArticleSão Paulo à la Carte
Eat your way through São Paulo, Brazil, South America’s culinary capital and the site of the 2015 RI Convention. Which is the better city, Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo? That is the great debate that...
View ArticleThe Talent Around the Table: Monica Saville
From Australia to India and back, Monica Saville embarks on a polio journey. For Monica Saville, Rotary’s polio eradication campaign is personal. Saville, who survived the disease as a child in...
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It Ends Here
Polio still lurks in three countries. Our local experts explain why. We are tantalizingly close to ending polio. Of the disease’s three strains, we haven’t seen a case of type 2 since 1999 or of type 3...
View ArticleFacts of the Matter: Cheating
Did you know that the proportion of college students who admit to academic cheating has held around 75 percent since 1963? CHEATING INCREASES when rules are ambiguous and when strict supervision is...
View ArticleOld Friends, New Partners
How can Rotary and the Peace Corps work together to make the world a better place? Rotary clubs and Peace Corps volunteers have worked together for decades on projects to promote literacy, clean water...
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Doing the Right Things
A child’s future well-being is determined by age two. What his mother knows can improve his chances. Minutes after giving birth in the Shivgarh district community hospital in India, new mothers walk...
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Syria’s Other War
As a three-year conflict rages on, children battle an old enemy: polio. Inside the sprawling Zaatari refugee camp in northwestern Jordan, near the Syrian border, a biting wind whips around homes...
View ArticleCulture: Buddy, Can You Spare Some Time?
People are volunteering less. Here’s what you can do about it. Sit on your hands. That’s what I told myself as my son’s kindergarten teacher asked a roomful of moms and dads, “Who wants to be the room...
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Life After Disaster
In the wake of catastrophe, Rotarians are there for the long haul. It could be a case of time passing, or it could just be that she is given to looking for comic relief, but one of the first things...
View ArticleThe Talent Around the Table: Jake Weragoda
Getting the flavor of Rotaract with Jake Weragoda. Next time you’re standing in the grocery store, debating between the roasted garlic crackers and the rosemary and olive oil ones, think of Jake...
View ArticleCitizen of the World
In the midst of Syria’s civil war, Michel Jazzar is coordinating National Immunization Days in Lebanon. Of the four million people living in Lebanon, more than a quarter are Syrian refugees. So when...
View ArticleLiteracy: Real Page-Turners
Last summer, Chicago hit on a way to get kids to read. In June, Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon accepted a friendly wager from Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel: If kids in Chicago could read 2.4 million books...
View ArticleSoul Man
This Rotarian is a pop and soul singer/songwriter, owns his own indie label, and dabbles in real estate. In July, he added club president to his résumé. When Nathan Stone starts talking, his enthusiasm...
View ArticleMinnesota Rotarians Send Students Packing
Through the Rotary Youth Exchange program, Minnesota club members send students packing for adventures abroad. For several years, Jacob Lundell had been thinking about going abroad. His family had...
View ArticleCulture: Hope Is Not Enough
Dealing with challenges makes us more resilient. A few years ago, I was passing through the northern Nigerian city of Kano when I stopped at a roadside stall for some tea. The proprietor asked me where...
View ArticleFor Olympia LePoint, It Is Rocket Science
How do you get from South Central Los Angeles to mission control? This L.A. Rotarian takes fear out of the equation. The room was cold and dark, but Olympia LePoint felt sweaty, wired, excited. She and...
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What’s Your Rotary Style?
Rotary is what you make of it. Whether you’ve worn the same hat in your club for decades or are looking to try a new one on for size, we want to know: What’s your Rotary style? THE WORLD TRAVELER...
View ArticleThe Talent Around the Table: Wayne Koppa
Michigan’s Wayne Koppa takes us on a 5,800-mile, seven-day, coast-to-coast journey by way of his BMW 650 motorcycle. Last June, when Wayne Koppa, a Rotarian from Grayling, Mich., announced he was...
View ArticleThe Rotarian Conversation: Ertharin Cousin
The executive director of the UN World Food Programme knows we can end hunger if we work together. The executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme grew up in Lawndale, a threadbare...
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