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The group Bringing Unity Back Into the Community (BUBIC) in Haringey, North London, recently won the London Drug Team of the Year award. Manager Kelvin O'Mard explains how he and members of his team help make a difference to the lives of crack users, ex-crack users, their friends and families.

Dr Alex Lickerman is a physician and former Director of Primary Care at the University of Chicago.  He’s been a practising SGI Buddhist since 1989

For me, this last week has been a little rough. I’ve been working as an attending physician on an in-patient service populated with incredibly sick patients, several of whom are intensely angry about their diseases and are projecting their anger toward me and the team of residents with whom I work.

Nelumbo nucifera, the lotus flower, has been a sacred symbol for thousands of years, writes Diane Southam

In the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo some years ago I was entranced to see gigantic sculptures of a Pharaoh and his consort, each cradling a lotus in the palm of their hand, smiling peacefully as they gazed into eternity.

Liberian SGI member Andy Ankrah found himself doing just that. For the past 14 years Liberia has been torn apart by tribal rivalries. The fighting has claimed more than 200,000 lives, displaced one million people and made the country famous for ethnic hatred, public executions and child soldiers.