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The Responsibility Project

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Responsibility. What’s your policy?™

  1. Seen on the Street

    Posted on February 28, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (5)

    Parental advisories abound these days. Toys are toxic. Cold medicine is dangerous. Sesame Street has an adults-only warning. Cowabunga! Is the letter of the day X, as in Rated? Read full article »

  2. The Decision

    Posted on February 21, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (6)

    The golden hour strikes without warning.

    The golden hour is the critical 60 minutes from the moment a life-threatening injury occurs to when the human body—if left untreated—starts shutting down on a trajectory toward death. Paramedics and other emergency responders encounter it as a matter of course. Read full article »

  3. Rehab

    Posted on February 20, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (58)

    By the time British singer Amy Winehouse received five Grammy Awards for “Rehab”—her autobiographical ode to dodging detox—the song had become Hollywood’s newest soundtrack. In the week before Rehab was named record of the year and song of the year, news reports noted that the actresses Eva Mendes, Kirsten Dunst, and Sean Young had all entered rehab, and that Pat O’Brien—host of a tabloid TV show that routinely reports on the rehab struggles of others— was suddenly in rehab himself. All of which prompted one culture-chronicling website to ask: Is rehab the new black? Read full article »

  4. Shame Game

    Posted on February 19, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (6)

    If you want to send a message, the old saying goes, use Western Union. In Arizona, authorities who want to send a message to drunk drivers are using public humiliation, by posting the drivers’ photos on a website and on huge highway billboards with this scarlet letter taunt: Drive Drunk…See Your Mug Shot Here. Read full article »

  5. From the Heart

    Posted on February 14, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (6)

    On Valentine’s Day, we have a tradition of saying “I love you.” But do we ever have a responsibility to say “I forgive you?” Experts in the study of forgiveness say we do, and that the act of forgiving is a skill we can all learn. Read full article »

  6. Table Guardians

    Posted on February 14, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (4)

    Being responsible can be life-changing. Profound. Noble. And annoying. What are we supposed to do when a stranger says “Excuse me, can you…Watch my things?” Read full article »

  7. Crowd Scene

    Posted on February 13, 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 »

  8. The Gift Continues

    Posted on February 8, 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 »

  9. Not It

    Posted on February 7, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (13)

    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 »

  10. King’s Question

    Posted on February 5, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (6)

    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 »