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Major Rodger Y. Murphy should have died when his helicopter crashed off the coast of Mogadishu in November, 1993. Instead, he woke up in August, 2125, in a binary star system 152 light years from home. Without any memory of the otherworldly abductors who spirited them away in cold sleep, Murphy and 100 other “Lost Soldiers” have been retrieved and awakened by officers of the Consolidated Terran Republic. Promising to return to the 55 Tauri B system after completing a distant mission, they leave the twentieth century castaways with a daunting objective.

Peace & Health is the story behind this improbable effort: the 20-year-old who plants the flag in his small hometown of Middletown, Connecticut; the daughter of a sharecropper, who made her way north during the great migration and becomes the North Star of the drive to transform health in the community.

Per gli appassionati e gli studiosi di musica, Carlos Kleiber è una figura leggendaria. Un uomo che ha diretto solo 89 concerti e registrato soli 12 dischi, che aveva un repertorio molto esiguo, ma che nonostante ciò è ritenuto da colleghi, critica e pubblico uno dei più grandi direttori d’orchestra di sempre.

La historia de cómo el trabajo de un pequeño grupo de personas creció hasta alcanzar el tamaño de su vocación: garantizar que el cuidado de la salud sea un derecho, no un privilegio.