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Whether you went to college 5 years ago or 55 years ago -- sitting through a lecture was usually something to dread. In fact, I must admit (sorry Mom and Dad!) to working out a sign-in system with friends, so we could rotate who had to actually sit through the class and take notes, and who got to sleep in. Because lectures were just that -- lectures -- and who wants to listen to a person drone...

Any doubt that the political race is heating up? Forget heating up -- a lot of big names are already burned by moves they've made in recent months.The latest person to get caught up in controversy is Geraldine Ferraro, the 72-year-old political trailblazer who became the first woman on the major presidential party ticket in 1984. She and Walter Mondale didn't win their campaign, but they broke...

In his play King Richard II, written in 1575, William Shakespeare had his fictional king set this procedure for trial: "Then call them into our presence - face to face, and frowning from brow to brow, ourselves will hear the accuser and the accused freely speak..." (Richard II, Act I, Scene I). At the time Shakespeare was writing his plays over 400 years ago, outrageous abuses were the daily...

I want to take a few minutes and share with you my thoughts on living in a virtual world. I am approaching my 58th year of living in an actual world, and I must admit that I am a long way from having that mastered. Now, thanks to creative folks like Mark Middleton and Bill Shaefer I have the opportunity to end up in a totally new realm. I enter this realm with both optimism and apprehension. First...

Roz Savage is a British ocean rower, author, motivational speaker and environmental campaigner....

FOR EVERY SEASON TURN, TURN, TURN My last posting with the Growing Bolder community was...