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  1. Crowd Scene

    Posted on February 12, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (1)

    When adventurer Steve Fossett’s plane went missing over the remote Nevada desert in September 2007, there was no distress signal. But 50,000 people heard a call for help. Without knowing each other or the man they were looking for, they formed an altruistic army of volunteer searchers, unprecedented in size and extraordinary in method. Read full article »

  2. The Gift Continues

    Posted on February 7, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (2)

    A couple of weeks ago, we told you about “The Gift”: a woman finds an envelope with $770 cash—lost by a frantic holiday shopper on the floor of a toy store—and takes it directly to the police. When police return the money to the grateful shopper, the Good Samaritan thinks the story is over. But it was just beginning. Read full article »

  3. Not It

    Posted on February 6, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (25)

    Generations of Americans learned the three R’s in the classroom, while the fourth R—recess—was a stage for life lessons and conflict resolution.

    But traditional recess—where kids run around and play kickball, soccer, tag and other games of physical contact—is increasingly being banned across the country by school officials, and not for reasons of injury or litigation. The period of child’s play, they say, has become too competitive and too ego-bruising. Read full article »

  4. King’s Question

    Posted on February 4, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (8)

    Stephen King is known for writing scary things. When Time Magazine recently asked him who he would choose as Person of the Year, Mr. King wrote “Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan.” But rather than an endorsement of the two celebs—whose personal downfalls are relentlessly chronicled throughout the media—the full context of King’s nomination was an indictment of the media itself: Read full article »

  5. Food Fight

    Posted on January 31, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (11)

    When a book called Deceptively Delicious was recently published, it prompted a double-barreled debate about ethics—those of its author and that of its premise. “Deceptively Delicious” is a cookbook. Read full article »

  6. Test Your (Moral) Mettle

    Posted on January 27, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (8)

    Is morality hard-wired into the human brain? Is there such a thing as “moral intuition”? Are emotions linked to moral judgments? Harvard psychology professor Marc Hauser asks those and other probing questions in his job of studying the science of moral decisions. Read full article »

  7. The Gift

    Posted on January 25, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (8)

    Long after the holiday decorations have been put away and the presents have started to lose their luster, the spirit of the season past becomes increasingly hard to hold on to.

    But we found that one woman’s gift to another still sparkled, well into the New Year. Read full article »

  8. Transit

    Posted on January 24, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (9)

    We think we know ourselves. Know exactly how we’d act in certain situations where we’re called upon to do the right thing.

    Transit upends our convictions and tosses some emotional chaos into a bumpy ride. Read full article »

  9. You bring the popcorn. We’ll bring the movies.

    Posted on January 23, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (2)

    A movie can be a powerful thing. Especially when it gets you thinking. Seeing things in a way you’ve never seen them before. Which is why, in the weeks and months to come, we’ll be bringing you a series of amazing short films here at ResponsibilityProject.com. Read full article »

  10. Welcome to The Responsibility Project

    Posted on January 23, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (11)

    Most of us think of ourselves as responsible. We do our work, pay our taxes, and lend a hand to a friend or neighbor when asked. But when—and how—do you decide to accept responsibility beyond the status quo? To step in and stop a fight. To come forward as a witness. To comfort someone else’s child, when it means you won’t be home to comfort your own. Read full article »

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