Cross & Crescent

Blind and missing all but two fingers, Bill Raeder has difficulty reading braille. But as president of the National Braille Press in Boston, he strives to provide the blind with access to information and literature, printing 15 million braille pages a year.

Your heart beats 100,000 times a day. Mark Schoeberl of the American Heart Association wants to keep it that way as he works to reduce your heart’s susceptibility to heart attack and stroke, two of the nation’s leading causes of death.