There’s an old saying that people past a certain age tend to mutter to themselves, “Youth is wasted on the young.” That may have been true of past generations, but today’s mutterers have never met the four young women from San Diego who are doing anything but wasting their youth. Inspired by the movie Invisible Children, a film about northern Uganda’s children, some as young as 8-years-old, who are kidnapped nightly and forced into the roles of soldier and killer in that region’s long-running...

There are some people who look at the world and say, ‘What’s the use? The world is too big for one person to make a difference so why should I even try?’ And then there are those people, shining like beacons in the dark, who look at the world and say, ‘Why not.” Hayden Payne, a 30-year-old citizen of Australia, adds his own bit of wisdom to that thought, “To some ignorance is bliss. For (others) the greatest burden is life in harm’s way.” He doesn’t hesitate to ask, “Where do you draw the lin...