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Executive Uses His Position to Help the Poor

Sweatshops in Southeast Asia crank out many of the name brand clothes that you and I wear every day. Sadly, many of these clothes are made by poorly paid ...


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People Wouldn't Fight Crime with Superpowers

Which superpower would you choose—flight or invisibility? You can't have both, and you'll be the only person in the world to have that particular ...


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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 14 box office hits in a row, including Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Wall-E, Up, and Brave—to name ...


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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 were just too boring. ...

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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 of the ...


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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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