Mars: Our Next-Door Neighbor in the Solar System

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Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and Mars is the fourth. The gravity on Mars is about 37% Earth’s gravity. This means if you were standing on Mars you could jump almost three times as high as you can jump on earth Earth. Mars is the home to both the...

Mistakes

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Grantland Rice (1880 – 1954) was a famous sportswriter who was friends with — and wrote stories about — great athletes like Babe Ruth (the baseball legend) and Bobby Jones (the greatest golfer of his era). Mr. Rice understood that even the very best players make...

Worry

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Late in his life, Mark Twain said, “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” Mr. Twain was making the point that most of the things we worry about aren’t worth worrying about. If you’re wasting time and energy dreading...

Gratitude

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Oprah Winfrey was born in rural Mississippi and lived with her grandmother in a house that had no indoor plumbing. She made it to college in Nashville, where she got her start in television. Over time, she moved to the top of her profession, and stawyed there. Oprah...

Habits

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Ben Franklin understood that the easiest way to stop a bad habit is to never get started. He said “’It’s easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.” And as usual, wise old Ben was right. Bad habits have a way of sneaking up on us. At first, they...