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Themes: education, technology, innovation, biography, inspiration, changemaker, role model. When his cousin struggled in school, Salman "Sal" Khan decided to help. Since they couldn't get together, Khan tutored her by computer. Soon he posted lessons online for others too. Seeing the need for online learning, he started the Khan Academy. Through the academy, Khan continues his quest to provide a world-class education to anyone who wants one. Blue...
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"Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood....
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Thomas Buergenthanl, a judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, shares his memories of what it was like to be a child in the Holocaust and to survive the concentration camps, and discusses his experiences after being liberated from Sachsenhausen, his miraculous reunion with his mother after three years apart, and his emigration to the U.S. in 1951.
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