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Happy Feet

It started with a simple pair of canvas tennis shoes that an American missionary gave to a 9-year-old Nigerian boy in the early 1970s. As luck would have it, they fit.

More than 30 years later, that boy had become a software executive in Charlotte, N.C., and a father of four. He decided to help the world's needy children in the way the...

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