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Mt. Everest Climber Had the Wrong Goal
In his best-selling book, Into Thin Air, John Krakauer tells the story of the ill-fated expedition to the summit of Mount Everest in 1996. In the book ...
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Everyone Wants to Be King of the Hill
Public radio program This American Life ran a special report on a certain sub-culture of people whose prize possessions are their car stereos. They are ...
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LeBron James and the Good News for 'Great People'
On June 19, 2016, the Cleveland Cavaliers, led by their superstar LeBron James, clawed their way back from a three game to one deficit, won three games ...
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Actor Ben Affleck Reflects on Our Brokenness
In a 2016 interview in The New York Times, award-winning actor Ben Affleck reflected on the pressure to hide our broken areas. When he watches other movies ...
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Country Singer Merle Haggard's Restless Soul
Country music icon Merle Haggard (1937-2016), had 38 of his albums appear on Billboard's country-music top 10 charts (more than a dozen made it to Number ...
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Missionary Doctor Never Saw His 'Success'
In 1912, medical missionary Dr. William Leslie went to live and minister to tribal people in a remote corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ...
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Professor Posts a 'Failure Resume'
We all have failures in our careers. But usually we keep quiet about it. Not this Princeton professor, who recently shared his CV of failures on Twitter ...
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Teaching Kids the Power of Struggle
New research from social scientists has revealed that telling kids stories of real-life "superheroes" and "geniuses" is a good idea—if ...
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Tom Hanks on the Fear of Faking It
In his new film (2016), A Hologram for the King, Tom Hanks plays a middle-aged American businessman who is sent to Saudi Arabia for a special project. ...
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Two Kids Dream of Flight
Any given day, 23,000 scheduled flights take off and land at American airports. At any given time, 5,000 of those airplanes are simultaneously airborne. ...
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