Many of these schools and mosques are doing good work to help Pakistan's poor. But some of them seem only to exist to teach militant jihad.

Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in cities. But the girls stay home, become leaders in the community and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

All he wanted to do was work to help our parents. We don't have much. We are poor. ... I think he just wanted to save some [money] and then move back to Mexico some day.

Most auto parts stores are closed in the evenings, and that doesn't help someone who wants to work on a car after he gets home from work. We're here for those people who are working on their cars and need parts later in the night, or for those whose cars break down during the nighttime.

They raised 62,340 pennies. These kids, in all their purity and innocence, were reaching out to kids halfway around the world.

...we're also extremely sensitive to the difference between literacy and ideology. It is our belief that the first helps to thwart intolerance, challenge dogma, and reinforce our common humanity. The second does the opposite.