Counseling kids to college Douglas McGray, DOUGLAS MCGRAY, a contributing writer to The Times' West magazine, is a fellow at the New America Foundation.
The `Crocodile Saver' David Helvarg, DAVID HELVARG is president of the Blue Frontier Campaign (bluefront.org).
Latin America's not fun couple Nancy Soderberg, NANCY SODERBERG, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is the author of "The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might."