"We are building an aspiration nation, a country where it's not who you know or where you're from but who you are and where you're determined to go, " he said.

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"It's different from a club, where you are right beside your neighbor and you have drinks clanging and waiters serving, " said Martin Kagan, Pace's director of cultural affairs, who also presented Liz Callaway and Ann Hampton-Callaway in their show "Boom" last year.

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As I understand it, it's a 14-hour drive from where you are in Fairbanks, but you've been working the phones all day long.

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It is an unforgettable, magical journey, where you are cut off from the rest of the world and thrust into what little nature remains of this vast tropical island.

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It's very important for you to know who you are and where you came from.

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Americans are on the move again, this time from exurb and suburb to downtown, not only where you might expect it -- San Francisco -- but also where you wouldn't: Cleveland's most central census tracts added 20% to their population from 2000 to 2010.

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