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True Gender Equality Is Still 151 Years Away—Despite Recent Milestones

Success

18, 2019, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch completed the 221st spacewalk in support of the International Space Station’s maintenance and assembly, and marked the first all-female spacewalk in history. women’s team has been far more successful on the international stage than the men’s team,” according to ESPN.

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

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Olympic team in 1956, winning bronze in the 4×100 relay. Four years later, she truly made her mark, winning gold in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash and as part of the 4×100-meter relay team, breaking three world records. At 16, she made the U.S. The 10-season major league pitcher was born without a right hand.

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This High School is Doing Whatever it Takes to Mentor First-Generation Students

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Marble Hill School for International Studies, in the Kingsbridge neighborhood of the Bronx, has a 96% nonwhite and overwhelmingly first-generation-immigrant student body of about 450, speaking more than 35 languages. Now a senior at Marble Hill, Islam serves as team captain and aims to play for a Division 1 college and then professionally.

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The Holy Grail of Investing With Tony Robbins: Mindset Shifts that Lay the Foundation for Financial Freedom

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Among them is Namale, a tropical resort in Fiji and investments in a range of private equity funds that are part owners of the Boston Red Sox, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Golden State Warriors and other professional sports teams. Why sports teams? Robbins says sports teams provide lots of revenue streams.

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It’s Not the End: Why Creating an Exit Strategy Sets Your Business Up for Long-Term Success

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Paterson advises that if the exit strategy is acquired by a competitor, certain aspects of the company, like corporate finances and internal controls, are more important than if the goal was to take the company public. Yahoo refused to buy Google for $1 billion in 1998 and again refused $5 billion in 2002. billion.”

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How Two Decades of Film Remakes Have Impacted Creativity in Cinema

Success

Alex Stevens, host of the weekly SUCCESS Movie Rewind podcast, points to Sam Raimi’s 2002 Spider-Man as a starting point. In contrast, small and mid-sized, character-driven and international movies with more narrative nuance and less action might play just as well on a small screen. That does seem to be a pretty dramatic shift.”.

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Ann Hiatt on What It Takes to Be an Executive Assistant

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In 2002, Ann Hiatt was fresh out of college, starting her first post-university job supporting Jeff Bezos’ at Amazon in Seattle. Amazon was made up of less than 1000 employees in 2002, compared with today’s 1.3 As the most junior member of Jeff Bezos’ office, Ann’s days consisted of a lot of intern-level work.

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