The lights dimmed, and a crowd of 1,200 watched a short film introducing Helen Thomas. Meanwhile, the award-winning journalist padded up to the podium. "It's nice to watch your own obituary," she quipped, in spite of the fact that she's still not retired at age 87.

Before she could...

When I was 14, I used my allowance to buy a t-shirt from the Body Shop that read, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." The proverb made a lot of sense to...