Ferriss' crusade to becoming superhuman began with wrestling when he was 16 years old, when he started tracking his own workouts.
Brother Cadfael fought in the Crusades before becoming a monk; his experience of life and his knowledge of herbs, learned from Muslims in the Holy Land, make him a humane and relatively practical voice amid the superstition, able to see clearly through the crimes that the civil war brings to Shrewsbury Abbey.
He also crusaded against drug abuse, becoming chairman of the parliamentary committee on drug misuse.
But he put himself through university with income earned as a tour guide, earned a law degree and dreams of becoming a crusading lawyer.
Brash and defiant, his tactics controversial, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has bowed to no one — including President Obama — becoming a one-man crusade against illegal immigration, always doing things his way.
The BBC's Soutik Biswas in Delhi says that Mr Hazare's crusade is now well on the way to becoming a full-blown, openly political campaign against the Congress party.
Congressman Trey Gowdy, the Republican who made headlines with a crusade to investigate Hillary Clinton, announced his retirement on Wednesday, becoming the 38th Republican to announce they would be giving up their seat in Congress since Donald Trump's inauguration last year.
Eventually, the line between therapy and enhancement may become too difficult to draw--with genetic backwardness one day becoming the social equivalent of disease, and genetic equality becoming the next social egalitarian crusade.
Children expect me to coach them by becoming their ally and support them in their crusade against their parents.
When crusading lawyer Zuzana Caputova swept to a historic victory last week, becoming the first woman elected president of Slovakia, one of her first gestures was both poignant and pointedly symbolic.
