A pair of film makers from Florida has explored the history of the Vietnam War from an interesting perspective: surfing.
Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we follow the journeyback to China Beach. We’ll also hear about the Army’s new recruiting campaign.
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Then we'll learn how students can find success by finding their edge. According to Laura Huang it takes that elusive quality she calls an edge for a student to realize their full potential. Dr. Huang is an associate professor at Harvard Business School. In her debut book called “EDGE: Turning Adversity into Advantage”, she draws from her research showing that personal success takes more than our ideas, credentials skills and hard-work, it takes an edge.
And we'll spend an Academic Minute writing the old fashioned way.