Albert Schweitzer

Haiti: Resources and how to help

2010-01-14 00:00:00

.indentMe { padding-left:20px; } In the wake of the utter devastation inflicted by the earthquake in Haiti, the efforts and contributions of people everywhere are crucial. If you're looking for ways to help, try these organizations: The U.S. State...

Edgar Wayburn dies at 103; longtime Sierra Club president helped double U.S. parkland

2010-03-08 00:00:00

Edgar Wayburn, a San Francisco physician and longtime president of the Sierra Club who was credited with protecting more parks and wilderness areas than any other American, has died. He was 103. Wayburn died Friday at his home in San Francisco of natural...

Abortion isn't a religious issue

2007-11-04 00:00:00

What makes opposition to abortion the issue it is for each of the GOP presidential candidates is the fact that it is the ultimate "wedge issue" -- it is nonnegotiable. The right-to-life people hold that it is as strong a point of religion as any can be....

American military cemeteries in Europe honor fallen heroes in both world wars

2008-11-09 00:00:00

On Veterans Day, Americans are asked to do something for the country besides voting and paying taxes: We are enjoined to think of those who fought in faraway places -- the Philippines, North Africa, Europe, Vietnam and Iraq. Most of them came home,...

Conor Cruise O'Brien dies at 91; Irish author became a prominent diplomat

2008-12-20 00:00:00

Conor Cruise O'Brien, a leading Irish author, politician and diplomat who rose to international prominence while leading a United Nations mission in the troubled Congo and remained an independent, often contrarian thinker amid religious strife of his...

Rhena Schweitzer Miller dies at 90; child of Nobel prize winner continued his work in West Africa

2009-02-28 00:00:00

Rhena Schweitzer Miller, the only child of Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who carried on his medical missionary work in the West African country of Gabon after his death in 1965, has died. She was 90. Miller died of natural...

Getting doctors to practice what they preach

2012-06-21 09:55:23

It's ironic that the year we, both new medical students, moved across the street from the nation's best hospital and began learning how to manage the health of others is the same year we stopped taking care of our own. It was a year of ups and downs....

Who the hell is that? Greene Vardiman Black

2011-09-07 16:22:35

Make calories count healthy challenge begins in S.D.

2011-01-07 01:30:41

Want to improve the food choices you make? The Make Calories Count Healthy Challenge helps you do that. Jan. 15-Feb. 15 and is open to all South Dakotans. Participants can earn one point per day for each of the behavior on the list of "100 Ways to...

Rick Scottâ€™s really Albert Schweitzer

2010-08-31 16:32:15

Thanking, Giving and Forgiving in the Time of Scarcity

2010-11-24 16:32:32

Al menos un muerto y 15 heridos en tiroteo en una escuela de Río de Janeiro

2011-04-07 00:00:00

Artist Albert Schweitzer selects work to hang on a wall at the flea market.

2012-06-03 13:30:00

Dr. Ian Rawson, the managing director of the Hospital Albert Schweitzer Haiti, will receive an honorary degree and will deliver the keynote address at Goucher College's 120th Commencement on Friday, May 20, 2011.

2011-05-13 14:40:34

George Lucas hoped the series would be a sort of history tutorial. Among the towering figures to be depicted was Albert Schweitzer, played by Friedrich von Thun.

2007-10-17 14:53:28