Aspiration determines our fame and shame

“Are we being good ancestors?”
–    Jonas Salk (a Medical researcher who developed the first successful polio vaccine)

In a track and field event for the mentally handicapped at Spokane, Washington, in 1976, one of the contestants slipped, tumbled on the asphalt and began to cry. Two other athletes – also with Down’s syndrome, heard the boy fall and wail. They turned back, looked at him expressionless at first and then picked him up. The three then linked arms and crossed the finishing line to...