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Farmer Offers Forgiveness and a Job to Thief
After suffering a string of thefts at his organic farm, Melvin Burns made an unusual offer. He offered the thief a job if he would just return the tools ...
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4th Grader Applies for NASA Position
When NASA posted a job opening for a "Planetary Protection Officer," a position responsible for the microbial footprint of humans during interplanetary ...
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Retired Man Returns to Work to Celebrate 100th Birthday
Many people try to get away from their day job to celebrate their birthday. One New Jersey man, however, decided to do exactly the opposite. Bill Hansen ...
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Encourage the Junior Scientists at Church
David H. Bradstreet, an award-winning scientist and astronomy professor, recounts how his church helped him find his calling in science. Growing up in ...
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Employee's Small Act of Kindness Rewarded By Warren Buffet
Joel Prusak was an employee at the ice cream chain Dairy Queen. One day, as he was serving customers their food, he noticed that a blind man had dropped ...
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A Benediction about Serving Wherever You Are
Richard Halverson, former pastor of Fourth Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Maryland and also the former chaplain of the United States Senate used the ...
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Memos from the 'World's Worst Boss'
Do you think your boss is tough or unfair? Try working for the world's worst boss—Mike Davis, aka Tiger Mike. Davis started as a chauffeur and ...
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Top CEO Dies Clutching Magazine that Featured Him
Colman Mockler is considered today as the model of an effective CEO. A Harvard Business School graduate with an MBA, he had gone to work for Gillette ...
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Founder of Amazon Planned Decades Ahead
If you own stock in Amazon, you get a letter from founder Jeff Bezos each year, reminding you of Amazon's commitment to think long-term. In his 2015 ...
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The Old Preacher's 67,600 Pages of Sermons
In Marilynne Robinson's beautiful novel Gilead, the old preacher John Ames starts digging through a box of sermons in his attic. One day he figures ...
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