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    <body><![CDATA[Out of the Box: Building Robots, Transforming Lives by Dr. Andrew Williams is a very good book.  It is a call for all students, parents, teachers to understand and grasp that, as his favorite quote says “Success is never final.  Failure is seldom fatal.  But it’s Courage that counts.” – Wins...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53142611">more...</a>]]></body>
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