The Untouched Minutes

What would you be willing to do to save someone, perhaps someone you loved? On a moment's notice, for instance, would you lunge between that person and an assailant's knife strike? In that same situation, what would you be willing do for yourself? And what if there were nothing, ultimately, to be done?

These and other such questions live in the untouched minutes-questions most of us are, fortunately, never compelled to answer, though the media exposes us daily to the stories of those who a...