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An 8-year-old boy from Searcy, Arkansas, who once told his mother every day that he hated his face, met the black Labrador that helped change how he saw himself after an anonymous donor paid for a 2,000-mile trip to Oregon. Carter Blanchard was diagnosed with vitiligo in December 2014 while in kindergarten. The autoimmune condition destroys pigment-producing cells, leaving white patches that first appeared around...

Steve Jobs’ eighth-grade science fair project, built when he was 13, is up for auction with current bidding at $5,500 and an estimate of $20,000 or more. The piece, titled “What is the Silicon-Controlled Rectifier?” and dated February 29, 1968, features a plywood display board roughly 32.5 inches by 18 inches by 7.5 inches. It holds two working demonstration circuits, a wooden model of a...