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		<title>Gene Kranz: The Prototypical Flight Controller</title>
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Gene Kranz had always wanted to be a pilot, but his flying career almost crashed on take-off. Accepted into the U.S. Naval Academy, he flunked the physical due to diabetes.
“I had been working at the A&#38;P warehouse and living on chocolate milk and brownies,” Kranz, 75, said. “We didn’t have money to go to college, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Lim: The Phoenix of One World Trade Center</title>
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Port Authority Police Officer David Lim felt the building shake at 8:46 a.m. “It was like a jolt and lasted about five seconds,” he said.
Sitting in his basement office (B-1 level) in Two World Trade Center (South Tower), Lim said he knew something was wrong. Within seconds a transmission crackled over his high-frequency radio – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lynn Harrell: Ambassador of Music, Citizen of the World</title>
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“For a young composer to feel the weight of that body, the finality, we know it affected him,” said celebrated cellist Lynn Harrell. He was describing the welter of feelings bearing down on 29-year-old Franz Schubert, one of six pallbearers carrying Beethoven’s coffin at his funeral in Vienna on March 29, 1827.
Of course, Harrell could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frances Hesselbein: Leadership Is Being, Not Doing</title>
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When Frances Hesselbein was approached by a neighbor to be a scout leader of a failing troop, she thought the idea was ridiculous. Not only had she never been a Girl Scout, she didn’t even have a daughter.
Busy assisting her husband in his business, Hesslebein agreed to help, and a six-week chore as a scout [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stacy Allison: First American Woman to Summit at Mt. Everest</title>
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It began with a small notice on a campus bulletin board. A rock climber, Curt Haire, was looking for a ride to Zion National Park in southern Utah in exchange for climbing lessons. Stacy Allison, a first-year student at Oregon State University in the late 1970s, was intrigued. She and a girlfriend decided to go.
“It [...]]]></description>
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