Ryan White

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.

While Obama might not push college education exclusively, like most Democrats he does oversell it and does shortchange the alternatives. And millions of young Americans pay the price.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.