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Speaking Truth To Power: Where Are The Brave Leaders?

W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Corruption, House of Representatives, Moral Courage, Leadership, Courage, Heroes, Ego, Jesus, Survival, Cowardice, Living News
W. Hunter Roberts

Moral courage often costs us the approval of those we think we need. Ego cannot fake or replace it; it comes from a deeper place. I dare say moral courage comes from love.

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The Spiritual Lessons of HIV

Mark Olmsted | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Rembrandt, God, Hiv, Grief, Kindness, Sprituality, Survival, Delvaux, Richter, Health, Wellness, Living News
Mark Olmsted

I learned to remind myself, every time that I felt tempted to internalize the societal stigma around HIV, that I contracted this disease in the search for human intimacy.

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The Health Insurance Trap

Ian Sigalow | Posted 10.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Debate, Chemotherapy, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Surviving Cancer, Seminoma, Cancer, Survival, Health Care, Living News
Ian Sigalow

A year ago, I would have said that the government shouldn't intervene in health insurance. But after a cancer diagnosis and four months of chemotherapy, I have a very different opinion. This is my story.

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Why Does Money Make Us Crazy?

Lotta Alsen | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Entrepreneurship, Survival, Money, Living News
Lotta Alsen

It's quite simple. Money represents survival. It's correlated to our first power, our base-line and our most primitive instinct.

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Take This Mine And Shove It: India Fights Coal, As Tribe Fights Mountaintop Removal

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: London, Dirty Coal, Appalachia, Native People, Survival, Vedanta, Mining, Big Coal, Tribal People, Arundhati Roy, Green, India, Mountaintop Removal, British, Green Energy, Green News
Jeff Biggers

With the blessing of the Indian Supreme Court, Vedanta plans to launch its own version of Appalachia-style mountaintop removal on the Niyamgiri mountain, which the Dongria Kondh tribe worships as a god.

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Give in Without Giving Up

Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Connecting, Mind and Body, Heart, Happiness, Positive Thinking, Survival, Fear, Acceptance, Death, Surrender, Motivation, Work & Life, Stress, Help, Living News
Eva M. Selhub, M.D.

In these difficult times, all we can do is to surrender, give in, and open our hearts to one another, to receive and give. Love is the source of our survival.

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Financial Crisis Spawns "Suburban Survivalists"

AP | GILLIAN FLACCUS | Posted 06.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Suburban Survivalists, Suburbs, Food Hoarding, Hoarding, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Joblessness, Survival, Living News

SAN DIEGO — Six months ago, Jim Wiseman didn't even have a spare nutrition bar in his kitchen cabinet. Now, the 54-year-old businessman and fat...

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What Would You Do?

Crystal Smith | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Survival, Conveniences, Computers, Iphone, Technology, Cell Phone, Living News
Crystal Smith

I never realized how much I depended upon my phone or my computer. I'm not so sure that's good thing. Depending too much on anything is not good for you.

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Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Remarkable Strength (and Success) of the Survivors

Ben Sherwood | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

Read More: Survivors Club, Jews, Nazi Final Solution, Holocaust, Remembrance, William Helmreich, World War II, Survival, Yom Hashoah, World News
Ben Sherwood

On these days of Holocaust remembrance, we honor the memory of millions who perished. We also pay tribute to those who somehow survived a massive and systematic attack on Jewish existence.

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Hold Fast: The 5 Survival Lessons of Capt. Richard Phillips

Ben Sherwood | Posted 05.13.2009 | World

Read More: Survivors Club, Stockdale Paradox, Fighting Spirit, Merchant Marine, Hold Fast, Navy SEAL, Capt. Richard Phillips, Pirates, Somalia, Survival, Uss Bainbridge, Captain Phillips, World News
Ben Sherwood

The captain's courage is a model for all of us. As we await details of how he made it through his four-day ordeal, it's clear that there was much more to his survival than just bravery.

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Mind Over Muscle: What Really Happened to those NFL Players Lost at Sea?

Ben Sherwood | Posted 04.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Nick Schuyler, Rescue, Stockdale Paradox, Optimism, Survival, Corey Smith, Oakland Raiders, Detroit Lions, Hypothermia, Coast Guard, Survivors Club, Marquis Cooper, Living News
Ben Sherwood

How did one man -- not a pro football player -- survive this ordeal while the other three perished? Was it a miracle? Or was it a wrenching case-study of the laws of survival in extreme situations?

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The Fighting Spirit: What are Don Imus' Chances of Beating Prostate Cancer?

Ben Sherwood | Posted 04.16.2009 | Media

Read More: The Lancet, Prostate Cancer, Fighting Spirit, Don Imus, Relative Survival, Will to Live, Dr. Steven Greer, Survival, Radio, Media News
Ben Sherwood

Imus is a tough guy, people will say, and he'll whip this disease like a defenseless guest on his show. But does the fighting spirit really make a difference in this kind of survival challenge?

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How I Lost My Marriage, Business and Health...And Survived! (Part 2)

Eli Davidson | Posted 04.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Losing Everything, Survival, Self Help, The Balanced Life, Living News
Eli Davidson

I wept as I read the comments from last week's post. Your kindness and tenderness touched those places in me that wept in the alley so the neighbors w...

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How Do I Survive a Winter Storm? -- 5 Myths Debunked

Ben Sherwood | Posted 04.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Winter Storm, Snow, Professor Popsicle, Hypothermia, Cold, Survival, How to Survive a Winter Storm, Cold Weather, Snow Storms, The Survivors Club, Catch a Cold, Alcohol, Sugar, Green News
Ben Sherwood

Some 95 percent of those who perish in cold water aren't actually hypothermic. The cold doesn't kill them -- it's the terror, which leads to drowning and heart attacks.

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Flight Check: What Are the Chances I'll Die on My Next Plane Trip?

Ben Sherwood | Posted 03.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Arnold Barnett, Continental Airlines, Aviation Safety, Airplane Crash, Risk of Death, Mit, Turkish Airlines, Survival, Living News
Ben Sherwood

In the US, you could fly every day for the next 164,000 years on average before you would perish in a crash.

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The Wrong (and Right) Lessons of the Continental Plane Crash

Ben Sherwood | Posted 03.16.2009 | World

Read More: US Air 1549, Airplane Crash, Arnold Barnett, Survivor Personality, Survival, National Transportation Safety Board, Continental Flight Flight 3407, Buffalo, Clarence Center, The Survivors Club, World News
Ben Sherwood

After listening to the news from Buffalo, we're likely to conclude there's nothing we can do in a plane crash so even why bother trying. That's understandable, but potentially fatal.

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How Happy Is... Is Ignorance Really Bliss?

Sophie Keller | Posted 03.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Ignorance, Survival, Personal Growth, Happiness, Featured Contributor, Living News
Sophie Keller

here is a difference in not knowing about something because you are genuinely uninterested and not knowing because you are scared to know.

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Lessons from the Losers -- How Not to Cave

Matt Stewart | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Capitol Hill, House of Representatives, President Obama, Politicians, John Boehner, Washington, Iraq, Congress, Obama, Dc, Survival, Barack Obama, Rescue Plan, Politics, Bailout, Federal Government, Economists, Stimulus Plan, Senate, Republicans, Economy, Demcrats, Politics News
Matt Stewart

It's essential to draw a distinction between rigidly opposing a terrible idea and opposing good one. The Iraq War is a terrible idea based on a lie. By turn, the stimulus package is a pretty good one.

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I Survived the Bush Years

Aram Khayatpour | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Katrina, 9/11, President, Obama, Iraq, Economic Crisis, Worst President Ever, Bush, George Bush, Bush Administration, George W. Bush, Bush Years, Survival, September 11th, Politics News
Aram Khayatpour

I am not one to say that 9/11 was Bush's fault; the reasons for it are many, but what I will say is the administration is at fault for not doing everything that was in their power to prevent it.

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The Survivor's Club

Mallika Chopra | Posted 02.28.2009 | Living

Read More: US Airways Crash, Survivors, Chesley Sullenberger, Us Airways Hudson River, US Airways Plane Crashes, Books, Airplane Crash Hudson River, Plane Crash Hudson River, Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger, Terrorist, Airplanes, Survival Tips, Hudson River, Life-Threatening Situations, Plane Crash, Survival, Chesley B. Sully Sullenberger, Survival Guide, Terrorist Attacks, Survivalist, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III, Plane in Hudson River, Hudson River Plane Crash, Hudson River Crash, Bears, Living News
Mallika Chopra

Whether it is an illness, foreclosure, or a messy divorce, there are many difficult life challenges that all of us and our loved ones will one day have to face.

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Why Smart People Do Stupid Things

Ariane de Bonvoisin | Posted 01.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Natural Disasters, Change, Barack Obama, Ariane De Bonvoisin, Change Nation, Survival Tips, Survival, Laurence Gonzales, Living News
Ariane de Bonvoisin

Laurence Gonzales, author of Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things believes our lazy modern culture has stunted your ability to react appropriately to a change or a threat.

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Why We Vote For The Happiest Cavemen

Rick Foster | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Voter Appeal, Cult of Personality, Physiology, Public Appearances, American Voting, Presidential Debates, Survival, Social Research, Happiest, Happiness, Attraction, Character Assassination, Happy People, Greg Hicks, Medical Anthropology, Africa, Prehistory, Debate Performances, Clan, American Political System, Leaders, Guilt by Association, Medical Research, Characteristics, Savannah, Political Backlash, Vote, American Voters, Good Leaders, Evolution, Candidate, Caves Lascaux, Truth, Politics News
Rick Foster

Our attraction to certain personal characteristics is integral to how we evolved as humans. How do we leap from prehistoric clan success to modern day presidential politics?

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