The Speaking Book addresses a major inequality - illiteracy - which deprives people access to life-saving information.
As Tierney acknowledges, the staff member he met was friendly and nonjudgmental and gave him life-saving information.
Christianity and other major religions do teach the virtue of chastity, but that shouldn't be grounds to deny students potentially life-saving information.
"And having a C.I.A. program for questioning terrorists will continue to be crucial to getting life-saving information."
Anyone refusing to provide life-saving information to a person who needs it is responsible for the resulting death.
In today's media-rich world, many of the planet's poorest still lack access to potentially life-saving information.
During a crisis, disaster, or emergency stakeholders play an essential role in reaching the public with life-saving information.
The purpose of these webpages is to help people with limited English proficiency levels to receive important life-sustaining and life-saving information when disasters strike.
But where automatic shotgun testing only runs up larger hospital bills, appropriate tests can yield life-saving information.
