27 years ago. That might have never happened had the heart recipient's story not been told in The Courier Journal.

Newspapers help reunite people.

Newspapers tell people's stories.

Newspapers don't let us forget.

Just ask the family of Kara Tingle Rigdon who has depended on this newspaper to get the word out about Kara and the fact that, after more than two years, she is still missing. She was last seen on July 17, 2010. She has two young children who miss her terribly. "If somebody had my mommy, I'd ask them to give her back," Kara's 9-year-old son, Austin, told the Enterprise in July.

Do newspapers still matter? Austin certainly thinks so.

Ask the family of Lebanon Police Officer David Ford, who was murdered in February of 2009. They lived through a highlyethical space at all - but from what I've seen they
simply don't understand why anyone would have a problem with what they do.

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ShroudedNight
I got this information second hand, but for what it's worth: There was a
graduate student at my university that was well known and highly regarded for
his stellar software engineering skills. At one point he took a job writing a
missile guidance system. His reasoning was that there were two options, either
he wrote the system, and could make damn sure it worked exactly to spec, or
someone else would write the system, and do about as good a job as the other
complex software engineering projects he had encountered. In essence: he took
the job to minimize collateral damage.

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zem
i'm surprised the article never explicitly spelt out the main point - for