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One chance to speak
When is the No. 1 nonfiction bestseller in America not quite a book? When it's "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch (Hyperion, $21.95), which sits atop Publishers Weekly's list and is likely to remain there for some time.
Pausch is a young computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University with terminal cancer who has dominated the Web recently with a college talk in which he answers for real the philosophical question: If you were going to die soon and could only give one speech, what would you say in it? The result is stunning. The book is an expanded version of his remarks, which are available on you.tube here.
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