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Church Starts a Subway Franchise to Provide Jobs
A church in Buffalo, New York has found a unique way to bless its local community—open a Subway franchise in its building. In a riff off the popular ...
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Olympics-the Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat
With the Olympics winding down we remember and celebrate the winners—the gold and silver and (maybe) bronze medal winners. But, sadly, while we ...
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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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Actor Ben Affleck Reflects on Our Brokenness
In an 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 ...
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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 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. The ...
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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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