Without Mort and Norma Brooks, Philadelphia would probably be a hungrier, less nutritious place. The pair was instrumental in making the Weavers Way Co-op the local-food-producing mainstay it's become.

"I start my day inhaling a bronchodilator for around 15 minutes; then I spend about 20 minutes inhaling a saline solution to break up the stuff in my lungs," he says. He is constantly two weeks on, two weeks off a nebulized antibiotic, and he takes extra enzymes before every meal because his pancreas doesn't produce enough to digest food.

City Paper: Why are you holding the "Teen Health and Harmony Summit" summit?
Eugene B. Padgett: There are a lot of kids that don't take care of themselves, that don't know the resources to get their health checked out. Teenage pregnancy, HIV and AIDS, high blood pressure, obesity, the list goes on and on and on.