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What I Learned From Wearing the Same Outfit for 2 Weeks

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president-elect of the International Positive Psychology Association told The New York Times in 2011. I don’t need anything fancy, but I do need adaptability—something suited for home and the coffee shop, lunches and interviews, school registration and playgrounds. My outfit also needed to be temperature-appropriate. (I

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Beyond the Music: DJ Steve Aoki Taps Into Tech and Brain Advocacy Through the Aoki Foundation

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The foundation’s Neon Future Science program produces one-on-one interviews with Aoki about current breakthroughs and discoveries. By 2011, Aoki was doing about 300 shows a year and has continued to do so with some breaks for self-care. You know, I get it. Music is an insane thing,” Aoki says. “It

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Experts Weigh in on 17 Investments for a Rich Life

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If your résumé needs work or your interview skills are rusty, hire a professional to work with you—don’t practice on prospective employers.” If you’re looking for excitement, this could take the form of a convertible for top-down driving on California’s Pacific Coast Highway. Photo by @Colour_Your_Life/Twenty20.

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The Right Conversation About Sustainable Living

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Idiom dissection wasn’t how I had planned to begin this story before my phone interview with Daron Babcock. Unlike literal deserts, however, they don’t form naturally. Babcock visited Bonton for the first time in 2011. In reality, “children a few miles away are starving” too, but there’s a reason Americans don’t use that phrase.

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Tyler Perry’s Hollywood: Diary of a Mad Black… Mogul

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“You have to understand everything that has happened to you, especially things beyond your control, weren’t about trying to destroy you as much as they were about molding and forming you as a person,” says the creator of such media as Diary of a Mad Black Woman , the Madea series and Tyler Perry’s House of Payne. It really does.

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Is the U.S. Becoming Less Entrepreneurial?

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But in many cases they use contractors, freelancers, outsourced services and other forms of contingent workers instead of traditional employees.  For example, Census data shows there were about 405,000 new employer businesses (businesses with at least 1 traditional employee) started in 2011. freelance jobs per month. 

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Want to expand your horizons? 35 new books from TED speakers that will enlarge your world

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When 37-year-old neuroscientist Jill Bolte-Taylor had a massive stroke in 1996, she lost her ability to form words and move her body but also experienced what she would later describe in her TED Talk as “euphoria”. asks Suleika Jaouad, who had to face her own mortality in 2011. What would you write about if you knew you might die soon?”

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