The Spring 2007 issue of Endeavors hit my mailbox today. “Generally, research is about pursuing new knowledge, not about taking a stand,” writes the editor, Neil Caudle [he was a reviewer for my master’s thesis reporting project], in a short editor’s column that mentions his father’s dying of emphysema. The magazine includes an article by Mark Derewicz about smoking: Facing Facts: How research and activism can steer kids away from cigarettes.