Functional Illiteracy causes over 93 million U.S. adults serious physical, mental, emotional, medical, and financial problems (at least 34 different types of problems) so severe that we would consider most of these problems a crisis if they occurred to us. In addition, about 600 million of the over 1.3 billion English-speaking people around the world read English so poorly that they have the same types of problems. The good news is that there is a simple, easily-implemented, PROVEN solution to the problem. In a bid to mark its presence on the world’s sporting stage, India bid and won the right to host the common wealth games in 2010. This will be the largest sporting event hosted by Delhi till date, and has therefore become something of a prestige issue for the government. Defining racism in an age when it is subtle rather than “in your face.” Helping the racist who would not classify himself as such to understand how insidious racism is. On September 8 2009, President Obama gave a motivational speech to school children. His basic message was to encourage kids to stay in school, study hard and never give up on achieving their goals. So why has this speech stirred up controversy?