My kids are no smarter than similar kids their age from the inner city.

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But in keeping with his home city's most famous export, Davies showed an inner steel from a young age.

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She doesn't sugarcoat the very real challenges that come with age physical limitations, loss of loved ones, illness but there's good stuff, too, like wisdom, courage and a rich inner life that gets better as we age.

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Although they cannot speak in words, cannot wrap their arms around me, hugging me tight, or wipe the tears I cry, they have an inner force and passion that surpasses their developmental limitations and age.

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In 1987, Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, died at a hospital near Spandau Prison at age 93, an apparent suicide.

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But it has not cracked the problem of inner-city poverty, nor the biggest social question of the age: how can an excluded social class find its way into the mainstream?

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In our age of radical transparency and everything communicates, almost all of us have an inner whistle blower just dying to blow and no shortage of ways to blow it.

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