To give of one’s self: to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived…this is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The small Whitetail, Mont., checkpoint along Montana’s border with Canada, which serves about three travelers every day, will receive $15 million for repairs under President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan. At right is the Canadian border crossing station. Associated Press