They'd love to sign up the grocery delivery company Peapod, which oddly enough was founded by two of my cousins (and is now owned by Stop & Shop).
"So we asked ourselves, 'Are we only going to pray for you if we find you pure enough and spiritual enough?' " Mary Baker Eddy, who founded the Church of Christ, Scientist, in 1879 in Boston, wrote in the church's textbook, "Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures," that anyone inviting a doctor to his sickbed "invites defeat".
Still, the movement would not be what it is without its core groups, like 50 Years Is Enough, which was founded in 1994 to oppose I.M.F. and World Bank policies.
"I didn't feel that corporations were taking these basic issues seriously enough," said Dr. Connor, who founded Travel Health Services in 1986.
AT THE peak of the internet bubble in early 2000, a collection of utilities, oil companies and investment banks founded, appropriately enough, an internet trading market, IntercontinentalExchange.
He was able to separate his ego from the company he had founded long enough to go do something else and enjoy it.
But while Dr. Henderson became more concerned about bioterrorism -- enough so that he founded the Johns Hopkins center -- he nonetheless advocated destroying the official smallpox stocks, for several reasons, he and those close to him say.
Slonem and Blandino also happen to be old and wise enough to possess appreciation founded on the understanding that they are on this earth (like those before them) for a very short time, and it is therefore an existence imperative to make the best of it, for themselves and all they encounter, whether in person or through their works.
"I think it is absolutely imperative to go straight to the top," said John Prendergast, a former Clinton administration official who co-founded Enough, a group that seeks to end genocide.
