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The Woman Who Invented Windshield Wipers
Like most women of her generation who visited New York in 1902, thirty-six-year-old Mary Anderson got to where she was going in a streetcar. On one particular ...
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Research Finds Link Between Stress and Happiness
From 2005 to 2006, researchers from the Gallup World Poll asked more than 125,000 people from 121 countries one question: Did you feel a great deal of ...
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Musical Magic Ruined by Cell Phone
On a warm late-August Tuesday evening, music critic David Hajdu wandered into a Greenwich Village (New York City) jazz hotspot called the Vanguard. He ...
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Mistakes Fuel Creativity
Pixar has rolled out box office hits, including Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Wall-E, Up, and Inside Out 2—to name a few. ...
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Job Crafters Reshape Their Work to Serve Others
A team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Yale studied how people in unglamorous jobs coped with their often devalued work. When the researchers ...
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The Man Who Reinvented Children's Books
A 1954 Life magazine article titled "Why Johnny Can't Read" argued that the "Dick and Jane" books that most schools depended on ...
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Elevator Operator Shows True Joy and Gratitude
Blooming where you're planted has never been a problem for Los Angeles elevator operator Ruben Pardo. For 35 years, he has driven and steered one ...
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College President Faces Cancer with Faith
Steve Hayner, the 66-year-old beloved president of Columbia Theological Seminary, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. After tests had revealed that ...
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Woman Ministers to Telemarketers
Once, while speaking on the topic of grace in Toronto, I asked the audience about their own experiences conveying grace to others. One woman shocked us ...
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Dallas Willard Shares His Biggest Regret
Shortly before Dallas Willard died from cancer in 2013, Pastor John Ortberg asked him, "Do you regret anything?" Willard answered, "I regret ...
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