From Adversity to Achievement

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Vivienne Malone-Mayes

Vivienne Malone-Mayes

The pursuit of higher education is one of those personal milestones, like owning a house and becoming financially independent, that has traditionally been associated with the good life in America. Over the last century, going to college essentially replaced the...

Norman Borlaug (1914-2009)

Norman Borlaug (1914-2009)

In the United States today, the idea of “famine” is something we tend to associate with fiction and the distant past, not our own lives. News stories warn us of housing troubles, poverty and homelessness, but not of nationwide food shortages that endanger human lives....

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A biweekly series about the lives of great achievers whose differences enabled their success. Differences cause tension, but in the long run that tension can lead to invention, progress, and revolutionary change.

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