But the real work of the First Thursday Foundation is remembering, and its biggest gift is knitting back together lives raveled by loss.

It's one of the secret ingredients that makes BIR curries what they are. You will use it in almost all of the classic curries in this book. The flavours of cumin, coriander, paprika and turmeric are in most BIR curries […]

We had a sergeant who was a bit handy with the rougher elements. He dealt with them a little bit differently to what I do.

I'm no hero, insists freckle-faced 14-year-old Freddie Hanberry. But to many of the young cancer patients, nurses and staff at University Medical Center here, he is as close as you can get. The hero talk began when a national magazine featured Hanberry, who has leukemia, in a special section called 100 New American Heroes.