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When Jessica de Laguna was growing up in foster care near San Francisco, she felt no one had time to help her focus on what she wanted to be when she grew up. “I just learned to survive,” says de ...

Every morning at 5 a.m., Christa Foss, 42, a second-year anesthesia resident at Rutgers Health Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey, settles into the driver’s seat of her ...

Ibram X. Kendi — 2016 National Book Award winner, founder of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, and one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2020 — boldly proclaims his ...

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“The worst thing you can do when you’re sad is try not to be sad.” A 6-year-old girl named Maria who had lost her mom to colon cancer said this to Laurel Braitman, PhD, while coloring at a grief ...

When Natalie Boyle was getting treatment for cancer, she was able to count on family who lived near her home in Dallas, Texas, and could afford a nanny to help care for her 18-month-old twin daughters ...

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