with contributions from David B. Caruso, Laurent Belsie, Gary Thomas, Michael Silver, Terence Monmaney
"A 1999 STUDY conducted by the Columbia School of Medicine at the University of Missouri found that although 96 percent of family doctors [in the US] consider spiritual well-being to be an important part of a patient's health, fewer than 20 percent reported having discussed spiritual topics with patients.
with contributions from Stephen Goode, Robert Parham
"Like any other
virtue, honesty takes on importance in the minds of the young only when significant others in their backgrounds [such as parents, teachers, coaches] talk about it and emphasize it," says Tom Lickona, director of a character education foundation at the State University of New York at Cortland, responding to questions about how to help students stop cheating.
with contributions from D. Aileen Dodd, Nadirah Z. Sabir, Stephanie Paulsell
When Jeremy Fischer
wanted his high school to teach peace studies, he learned that the only way to achieve his goal was to be persistent and to help others understand why peace was important.
with contributions from Ted Halstead, Monica Seaberry
In a report
on a shift in sexual attitudes among teenage boys, a Youth Risk Behavior Survey of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicated that the number of boys saying they have had sexual relations declined from 57% in 1991 to 49% in 1997.
