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#1 In the year 2000, if you walked into the lobby restaurant of the Rihga Royal Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, you might have run into the most famous and hardest working people in the business of music. It was there that I met singer-songwriter Gerald Levert, and his father, Eddie Levert, of the O'Jays.
#2 The song “Exhale” (Shoop Shoop) from the soundtrack of the...
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#1 I loved when Baba called me Ah-mun, a shortened, endearing version of my full name Yiu-man. I was proud of him, and I couldn't wait to get to the kindergarten every morning to learn to read and write like he did.
#2 The town of Shiqi, near the mouth of the Pearl River Delta, was the site of a kindergarten that I attended. The town was close to the South China Sea,...
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#1 When I was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, I was thirty-eight years old. I was told that dying isn't the end of the world, and that there are many things worse than death. But the beautiful, vibrant world goes on.
#2 I was reminded of a story I heard on NPR about a team-building exercise that an employer in South Korea was using to raise worker morale. The...
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Book Preview: #1 The brain and body work together on Bright Line Eating to achieve weight loss, and this is because modern foods and modern patterns of eating are hijacking three critical processes in our brain and making it difficult to lose weight.
#2 Willpower is a simple brain function that governs our ability to make decisions. It is not a mental faculty that resists temptation,...
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Book Preview: #1 I grew up with the living embodiment of the strength, devotion, and intelligence Laura Ingalls Wilder described in her books. My mother, Frae Ella Berry, was a one-room-schoolhouse teacher who married a man who was a devoted partner but whose restlessness also challenged all her strength.
#2 My mother's story was that she and her sister Edith, her big sister, grew...
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#1 I had to go out to help Harold Ingledew with a sick sheep. It was difficult to stay asleep in the windy yard, and when I returned between the sheets while still enjoying many of the benefits of sleep, the system began to crumble.
#2 I managed to slip back into my trance, and my mind played lazily with the phenomenon of Harold Ingledew. I was shocked to hear singing...
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#1 Each sensory-defensive person has a unique set of sensory foes and comforts. People can show symptoms of tactile, oral, movement, visual, and auditory defensiveness or unusual sensitivities to taste or smell.
#2 The skin is the boundary between self and world, and a constant source of information about our environment. It is studded with about 5 million tiny...
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Get the Summary of Ingrid Fetell Lee's Joyful in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In "Joyful," Ingrid Fetell Lee explores the transformative power of color and light on human emotions and behaviors. She recounts how Edi Rama, the former mayor of Tirana, Albania, revitalized the city by painting buildings in bright colors, leading to positive changes in the community. Lee connects this to the universal happiness bright...
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#1 Highly sensitive people are often overwhelmed by stress. They are easily upset by noise and bright lights, and they are often unable to tolerate harsh and aggressive voices.
#2 HSPs are a minority of the population, and they are adversely affected by our fast-paced and aggressive modern industrialized society. They are easily overwhelmed by noise, crowds, and time...
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#1 Money was poured into Moscow, and the city was transformed. The Russians were the new jet set, the richest, most energetic, and most dangerous. They had the most oil, the most beautiful women, and the best parties.
#2 In Russia, working in television is not just about being a camera. In a country covering nine time zones, one-sixth of the world's land mass, stretching from the...
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#1 Blake had been with Dynastar for ten years, and he was finally ready to make a decision. He could stay with the company and hope for a bright future, or he could take an offer to be the CEO of a small business in a nearby community.
#2 Megan was not sure if she could trust Blake to lead the company, but she knew she could not lead a team of cross-functional employees....
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#1 I was born in South Africa, but my parents moved to Zimbabwe when I was young. In 1964, Ian Smith, soon to be elected prime minister, was to declare his intention to resist Britain's demand for majority rule and make a unilateral declaration of independence.
#2 I was eight when I was put in touch with psychologist Margaret Branch, who diagnosed me as dyslexic. I was...
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#1 One of the keys to success and inner peace is allowing yourself to be open to the infinite array of possibilities in your life. This is difficult, as we have been conditioned to believe otherwise.
#2 A closed mind prevents you from exploring and creating, while an open mind allows you to do so. Remember that progress would be impossible if we always did things...
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Get the Summary of Richard Rhode's The Making of the Atomic Bomb in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: From nuclear power's earliest foreshadowing in the work of H.G. Wells to the bright glare of Trinity at Alamogordo and the arms race of the Cold War, this dread invention forever changed the course of human history, and The Making of The Atomic Bomb provides a panoramic backdrop for that...
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#1 The sense of sight is extremely important to humans. We use sight to navigate our surroundings, judge the quality of food, and read. The brain processes visual information very quickly, which is why blindness can be so difficult to bear for so long.
#2 Our eyesight is extremely powerful, and it can adapt to see in extremely dark or bright environments. It can also adapt to see things that aren't really there, such as ghosts.
#3 Our eyes are powerful...
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#1 I was born on a Monday in November 1966, in Marie Claire Beauvais, France, to Axel Jean-Pierre and Marie-Claire. I never took my father's last name, and I ended up with my mother's maiden name.
#2 I was a Peenie Greet, or skinny twig, as my brother Maurice referred to me. I was painfully skinny, and I hated my protruding wings on my back. I was never given a middle...
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Book Preview: #1 This book is the story of Wilma Mankiller, but it is also the story of the Cherokee people and their indomitable courage. The chapters weave together the story of one Cherokee woman with the history of all the people of the Cherokee Nation.
#2 Wilma Mankiller, the woman of the house, is barefoot and wearing a brightly colored dress. She sips a mug of coffee on the...
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#1 In the final days of 1999, just as he had each December for several years, Konstantin Ernst prepared to film the presidential New Year's address. Yeltsin asked him to film it on New Year's Eve at five in the morning.
#2 On the last day of the twentieth century, Yeltsin announced his resignation from the presidency. His successor would be Vladimir Putin, a politician...
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#1 When I breathed in my daughter, a straight, bright path lit up the center of my brain. Every neuron said yes, yes, yes, yes, this is the one. This reaction is hardwired. Animals identify their offspring by scent.
#2 I was terrified of hospitals because I didn't know anything about them. I had never imagined threats to my future children, but I was protected from the...
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