Sarath Babu still lives with his mother in the same Chennai slum where he grew up. The house has brick where I bamboo stood, but it is a reminder of his commitment to help others. Thanks to his mother’s sacrifices and mostly his own efforts he was able to attend prestigious Indian universities and even…

A recent story on CBS news featured something we don’t often associate as one of the prices we pay for war, canine PTSD. Dogs that are used in sniffing landmines and participate in combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan have been found to be suffering from PTSD (post traumatic stress syndrome). Suddenly their behavior becomes…

Riverside County is beginning to charge inmates an incarceration fee up to a $142 a day, to defray costs of food, clothing, healthcare, security and other jail expenses. Trinity County in Northern California charges $20 a say, Glenn County up to $59 a day and Los Angeles County is talking about doing the same thing.…