Chris Wren was a bureau chief for the New York Times in Cairo, Moscow, Beijing, Ottawa and Johannesburg. The family cat, Henrietta, accompanied his family to may of those postings.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Journalist Jon Ronson recounts his memorable night out with a real life superhero named Phoenix Jones.
Carol Dweck is researcher at Stanford University. She says everybody fails, but not everybody fails the right way.
She was born in Somali, settled in the Netherlands and was elected to the Dutch Parliament. She says that her fierce criticism of religion grows out of her own shattering personal experience.
Claude Coleman was the drummer for cult rock group WEEN when he was involved in a car crash that left him with multiple broken bones, paralyzed on his left side, and brain- damaged.
Charles Wilkins talks of his summer job as a college student when he worked for a large suburban cemetery in Toronto.
Erik Larson talks about the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and what it meant for Chicago at the turn of the century, and talks about America’s first serial killer who was operating in Chicago at the same time.
Daniel Libeskind is the architect whose design was chosen to the master-plan for the new World Trade Center site.
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