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Born in Long Island, New York, Mindy Smith is one of the best up-and-coming vocalists to emerge from the Nashville scene. Her debut album, "One Moment More," is out on Vanguard Records....

   You know him by his numbers, and they are impressive: he's a 5'11, 180-pound hurler with a 95 mile-per-hour fast ball, three Cy Young Awards, and a 2002 salary of $14 million....

Nicholas Kristof, a columnist for the New York Times since 2001, is the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A native of Yamhill, Oregon and a graduate of Harvard...