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Giving Back: DKMS Is ‘Deleting’ Blood Cancer, One Donor at a Time

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A 14-year-old Katharina Harf was there in those early days, handing out flyers, appearing on TV shows and doing radio interviews alongside her sister. “It She founded the United States DKMS affiliate alongside her father in 2004, after attending Harvard University and dropping out of Columbia University’s executive program. (“I

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The Secret to Happiness… Is Just Love

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On its journey to discovering what it means to be Real, the Velveteen Rabbit learns that, in the end, it’s to have someone love you and to be able to accept that love in return. It’s the most thorough study of human lives that’s ever been done,” said George Vaillant, director of the study from 1972 to 2004. But they stay the same, too.

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Too Busy for Relationships? 5 Ways to Make Time for Connection

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I interviewed 300 people to discover the quality of their relationships and here’s what they had to say. The number of people who say they have no one with whom to discuss important matters has more than doubled between 1985 and 2004, according to a 2006 study by researchers at Duke University and the University of Arizona.

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

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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.” They have learned not to count on everything being the same and to react to subtle changes. They have learned resiliency ,” Fox says. Everything is just a privilege.”

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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In 2004 Blakely tackled another hurdle when she appeared on a reality show with Richard Branson called The Rebel Billionaire: Branson’s Quest for the Best , a sort-of cross between The Apprentice and The Amazing Race. Embracing and learning from failure Her father would even have Blakely and her brother do exercises in failure.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

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Thomas and Ayesha Kanji for Harvard Business School in 2004, Childs, as vice president of workforce diversity, executed a plan that created eight task forces. The idea wasn’t to simply learn how to make IBM more attractive to minority talent. This article appears in the October 2015 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated.

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A True Partnership: Olympia Dukakis and Bonnie Low-Kramen

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And I learned. Wow, did I learn about show business, about being a working woman, about making hard choices, and about life. No one got hired without Olympia’s approval and so my interview was on a snowy night since that was the only time she had. Theatre is a collaborative art and I learned that so too, is the workplace.

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