He has published a memoir under the title My First Coup d'Etat, in which he describes his time growing up in post-independence Ghana, including his father's imprisonment during the coup that overthrew independence leader Kwame Nkrumah.
He recalled his childhood growing up in Berlin, and produced a copy of his first diplomatic passport as the 11-year-old son of an American diplomat.
He is rational about the radiation risks to himself, but fears his daughter growing up in such a potentially poisonous environment.
Mr Kingdon's fascination with bronze dates back to his childhood growing up in Uganda, the son of a noted English zoologist and artist, Jonathan Kingdon.
In 2000, Democratic Unionist Party councillors objected to the proposal because of alleged derogatory remarks Neeson made about his experiences growing up in the County Antrim town.
He says his brother and father were into reggae and dub, and notes that his neighborhood growing up was consistently saturated with music from the West Indies.
Kim now serves traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean food, including dishes he learned from his mother growing up in Hawaii and sushi he perfected while training with Iron Chef Makota Okuwa.
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They drew on his childhood experiences growing up in an upper-class family in the Midwest before World War II.
Much of Mr Latham's pitch derives from his own experience growing up poor in Green Valley, in Sydney's sprawling western suburbs.
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Fuller's passion for education stems from his own experience growing up.
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Given his 6-foot-6, 250-pound frame, forward Chane Behanan looks like the sort of kid who ate every last leaf of spinach on his dinner plate growing up.
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They said he was asked about his father, about growing up the son of a Pentecostal preacher, and about criticism he has received for his faith.
Bassist Charlie Haden is known as a great jazz musician, but his lineage is all country: Growing up, he performed alongside his brothers and sister in the Haden Family Band, a country group led by his parents, Carl and Virginia.
His was a quintessentially American story -- growing up in Harlem, serving his country in uniform, working his way through law school, and then just breaking down every barrier that he came across.
With his legend growing, Solomon plowed his prize money into setting up his own recording studio and has since released a handful of mixtapes, including the well-received Redrum this past Halloween.
Stephan traces his entrepreneurial roots to his love of extreme sports growing up in Strasbourg, France.
Herrick developed his passion as a kid growing up in Ottumwa, Iowa headquarters of the Antique Airplane Association.
He thinks of a blind girl who lived in his neighborhood when he was growing up: Audra Stevenson.
Growing up on his family's tenant farm in Clyde, Texas, Mr. Estes was so industrious that by the time he was 10 he was paying his brothers and sisters to do his chores.
Growing up in his family's Boulder-based greeting card and publishing business, Blue Mountain Arts, he succeeded his grandmother as sales manager in 1996 and helped start bluemountainarts.com, an online greeting card Web site.
He says growing up listening to his mother sing in Houston, Texas, helped shape his appreciation for various musical forms such as jazz, rock, and hip-hop that he now incorporates into his own work.
It was perhaps fitting that he opened up to an Australian organization because, after growing up and starting his career in Johannesburg, he gained Australian citizenship during a two-year coal-trading assignment for Glencore in Sydney in the late 1980s.
His fast-growing company--revenue up 600% this year--manages e-mail for such corporate clients as E-trade, Sprint and AOL itself.
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