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Arts & Culture
Sandy Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems, spent more than 20 years working on a sequel to 'Pride and Prejudice.'
Career Change
Jacqueline Depaul started her modeling career after taking catwalk classes with people half her age.
Entrepreneurship
A truck dealer, an engineer and a mapmaker left their professions to launch sweet startups.
Features
Six On, Six Off: These professionals shunned the corporate world for seasonal second acts in ski towns.
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Meet three entrepreneurs who turned their passion for baking into encore careers.
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Here's a rundown on SecondAct.com awards honoring 2011 standouts in eight categories.
Career Change
This former CEO donated his suits to the Salvation Army and now dons Hawaiian shirts to sing and host a TV show.
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Day 8: The former Microsoft exec's ambitious literacy program opens new libraries daily in impoverished countries worldwide.
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Day 7: The insurance salesman had no literary credentials, but he knew how to use social media to become a bestselling author.
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Day 6: The psychiatrist delayed retirement to launch the Soldiers Project, a nationwide network that aids traumatized veterans returning home.
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Day 5: A 2,000-mile commute is no problem for this Oklahoma City mother of 11, who's working on her master's degree at Harvard.
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Day 4: Overweight and laid off, Gruno lost 40 pounds and launched a healthy raw-foods chip empire.
