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What MLB Pitcher Jon Lester and 4 Other Professional Athletes Teach Us About Overcoming Obstacles

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The very next year, she took to the pool at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and won not only two events for athletes with physical challenges, but also became the first amputee athlete to qualify for the final of a regular event when she swam the 800-meter freestyle. This article was published in June 2009 and has been updated.

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Life Is Not a Movie

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Diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2002, Ebert, “the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism,” according to The Pulitzer Prizes , came through with what was considered flying colors. This article was published in September 2011 and has been updated. But not me anymore. So yes, it’s sad. Grateful, indeed.

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Celebrating New Talent: Emerging Entrepreneurs Shines a Light on Up-and-Coming Entrepreneurs

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Take Jamie Kern Lima, who left behind her dream of daytime TV to create a makeup line for people with skin conditions after her rosacea began affecting her live interviews as a news anchor. “In This article originally appeared in the March/April 2023 issue of SUCCESS magazine. Success can look different than you expected.

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How Michael J. Fox Finds Ways Around Life’s Obstacles

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That led to an investigation in 2002 as to whether some environmental factor played a role. But during a September 2013 interview with Howard Stern, Fox told the radio host, “Believe it or not, from a scientific point of view, that’s not significant.” This article was published in June 2014 and has been updated.

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How Badly Do You Want the Life You Dream About?

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Now, I am living my calling in ways I was unable to imagine in 2002. I chose the name, bought the website URL, found a website designer, scripted the first dozen episodes, sourced videographers and reached out to my dream list of people I’d love to interview. Just over a year later, our little Texan, Matthew Raymond, arrived.

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Glenn and Mindy Stearns: Building a Legacy of Kindness

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In joint interviews and on their own podcast they interrupt each other, finish each other’s thoughts, tease each other, and riff on each other’s comments. I was going to the bar every single night,” he says in an interview with Giselle Fernandez for L.A. They call themselves Glenndy. As a young man, Glenn wrestled with alcohol. “I

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Lab rats – how the UK life sciences sector is struggling to find space to work

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We’re still very bullish on the discovery side, but there becomes a cap as to how far you advance your investment based on the broader ecosystem,” he claimed in an interview. “We One, TauRx, based in a former bus depot, is trying to develop a treatment for Alzheimer’s and has raised over $800m since its founding in 2002.

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