内容摘要：Students learn about Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa at a public library in Lima, Peru, Oct. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Students learn about Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa at a public library in Lima, Peru, Oct. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

His intention was to turn pro when he starred at Wake Forest on an Arnold Palmer scholarship. But his left hand went through a pane window on a swinging door that required 70 stitches. Sigel decided to remain amateur and started a successful insurance business.“I always thought things happen for a reason,” Sigel once said. “The hand injury was the best thing to happen to me.”

He won his first U.S. Amateur in 1982, and the following year became the first player to win the U.S. Amateur and the U.S. Mid-Amateur — for players at least 25 years old — in the same season. He also captured some of the nation’s most prestigious titles, such as the Sunnehanna Amateur, the Northeast Amateur and the Porter Cup.Sigel joined the PGA Tour Champions when he turned 50 and won eight times, though his legacy was amateur golf.He was on eight winning Walker Cup teams, and played as the captain in 1983 and 1985.

LAKE BUTLER, Fla. (AP) — Jay North, who starred as the towheaded mischief maker on“Dennis the Menace” for four seasons starting in 1959, has died. He was 73.

North died Sunday at his home in Lake Butler, Florida, and had colon cancer, said Laurie Jacobson, a longtime friend, and Bonnie Vent, who was his booking agent.

“He had a heart as big as a mountain, loved his friends deeply. He called us frequently and ended every conversation with ‘I love you with all my heart,’” Jacobson wrote in a tribute on Facebook.or even formed from early memories of

Whatever the reason, the most optimistic believe those life experiences can bring about alternatives to the status quo — if they hold meaningful roles.When DeNora Getachew became DoSomething CEO during the pandemic, she acknowledged the platform largely provided “slacktivist” opportunities — or low-effort ways to support social causes online. DoSomething was not meeting the desires of its 13- to 25-year-old audience for lasting community change.

The nonprofit was founded in 1993 to boost youth volunteering. Getachew said the “new DoSomething” sees volunteerism as a “step on the ladder” but not “the top rung.”She pointed to a new program called Talking Trash that does more than just encourage volunteers to recycle plastic bottles. Through educational campaigns and microgrants, DoSomething prompts members to think more deeply about improving overall waste management infrastructure.