Although I was a young nursing student, I had already learned a few important things about older people: touch is so very important, and humor can lift the spirits.

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Although I certainly think this young company has much to prove, I nevertheless appreciate how it is steering away from farm bets on swing-for-the-fences patent lawsuits like most of its competitors.

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The other day, I was having breakfast with a young woman who, although marvelously talented, was (and is) struggling to land a job.

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But as you know, although my husband is handsome, charming and incredibly smart, what I tell people -- and especially young people -- because I get to travel around to a lot of college campuses -- and I tell young people that that is not why I married him.

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Although this is still a functioning village, some young Masai are beginning to leave the countryside for Nairobi, and I was struck by the number of cell phones among inhabitants.

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