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How Apollo 13 Became NASA’s ‘Successful Failure’

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Doris Kearns Goodwin on Resilience

Learning from difficult moments lies at the core of great leaders. Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin explores how resilience and the ability to persevere became essential leadership traits for Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.

Who Said it?

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.-Robert Scott

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2023-24 Los Angeles Lakers Media Day

LeBron James

The NBA star will be the first professional male athlete to be honored with a Ken doll in his likeness.

Pat Boone.

Pat Boone

The singer, who first appeared on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart in 1961, broke the record for longest span of appearances on the chart with the release of his new single.

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'Mommy'

The nearly 100-year-old endangered Galapagos tortoise, a resident of the Philadelphia Zoo since 1932, became the oldest of her species to ever give birth.

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