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Try four weeks FREE, then $4 every four weeks for one year  Sign up for this newsletter Read online Stories that inspire.     (Jacqueline Marie Photography) They were prisoners in the Holocaust together. They just reunited. The men met at a Nazi forced labor camp 80 years ago and never knew what became of the other. By Sydney Page ●  Read more »   How to stay up to date on terrible news without burning out Your phone is a portal to constant terrible news. Here's how to rein it in. By Heather Kelly ●  Read more »   Kids wrote pleas to help unwanted shelter pups find homes. It worked. "It gives me goosebumps thinking about the kid that wrote that, thinking they did it, they got that dog a home," said Marie Lucas, who adopted one of the rescue dogs. By Sydney Page ●  Read more »   While others made news, 'CODA' made Oscars history "The slap" might have been the headline, but the 94th Academy Awards had its share of breakthroughs. Perspective ●  By Ann Hornaday ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Get breaking news alerts, offline reading lists and more. Download the app   Resilience of spirit, more than intellect, is the key to life Several months before her death, former secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright wrote some reflections on the importance of making the most out of life. Opinion ●  By Madeleine K. Albright ●  Read more »   At age 101, he finally got his high school diploma In segregated America in the 1930s, Merrill Pittman Cooper's family was too poor for him to stay in school. By Cathy Free ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Restaurateur shares Food Network winnings with her employees Carena Ives of Richmond used the winnings from "Guy's Grocery Games" to support the employees of her Jamaican restaurants. By Emily Heil ●  Read more »   Wondering how to carve out 'alone time' as a parent? Here's how some do it. In our pandemic-worn, work-from-home, remote learning era, finding creative ways to create dedicated space for ourselves, whether it's a solo walk or binge watch, is all the more crucial. Perspective ●  By Leslie Streeter ●  Read more »   Banksy art sold for four times its value. The money's going to Ukraine. The famous anti-war print "CND Soldiers" sold for $106,505, which will go to a Ukrainian children's hospital. By Jonathan Edwards ●  Read more »   'Mrs. Frank Leslie' ran a media empire and bankrolled the suffragist movement A new book tells the scandalous secrets of a forgotten 19th-century tycoon, Miriam Follin Peacock Squier Leslie Wilde, also known as Mrs. Frank Leslie. By Gillian Brockell ●  Read more »     We think you'll like this newsletter Check out Must Reads for a curated selection of our best journalism in your inbox every Saturday, plus a peek behind the scenes into how one story came together. Sign up »

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