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Meanwhile... in Nouakchott, Mauritania, a determined group of teenagers is working to improve the country鈥檚 capitalIn Cyprus,聽British soldiers聽have a high-tech ally in their fight against bird trapping: drones. And in聽Kigali, Rwanda,聽the country hosted its聽first robotics boot camp聽last month.
Someone to lean on arrives just when you need themCrises may foster friendships as nurturing as they are brief.
Meanwhile... in Mongolia, there is excitement about young opera singersAnd in San Rafael, Colombia,聽workers are searching out and defusing land mines in an effort to make good on the government鈥檚 promise to demine the country by 2021, while in Ethiopia鈥檚 Harenna Forest,聽about 600 families practice聽a tradition of beekeeping dating back at least to the 4th century.听
I am tugged into the past by a stringMom saved string, although I don鈥檛 believe she鈥檇 save it if it were less than two feet long.
Meanwhile... in Yerevan, Armenia, a young woman hopes to help jump-start educationAnd in Najaf, Iraq,聽Ahmad Shukor, an engineer and vintage car enthusiast, plans to open a vintage car showroom, while in聽Giza, Egypt,聽scientists from the Heritage Innovation Preservation Institute and the French National Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics are hoping that聽tiny robots will help them solve one of history鈥檚 great mysteries.- What Shiloh taught me about living in the nowIf a treat were offered but not immediately given, he let me know.听
Meanwhile... in Senegal, elementary schools are experimenting with teaching students in the native language of WolofAnd in Isla Montecristo, El Salvador,聽residents help to collect the eggs of the endangered olive ridley, a black-green sea turtle, and then take them to Gio D铆az, while in Heidelberg, South Africa, a聽retiree noticed that vegetables were being stolen from his home garden, so he聽planted a new garden bordering right on the street to make it easier for those in need聽to pick the food.
In Finnish, I鈥檝e only begunOur exchange student鈥檚 English was perfect; my 鈥榮uomi,鈥� not so much.
Meanwhile... in Iraq, a former US college basketball player has put his troubled career back on trackAnd in St. John鈥檚, Newfoundland,聽serious birdwatchers are braving the cold and snow and arriving by the dozens, while in Monrovia, Liberia,聽African movie star Van Vicker opened聽the country鈥檚 first postwar performing arts school.
Stealth parentingI鈥檝e found a surefire way to lure聽my teen out of his room.
Meanwhile... in Detroit, a social studies teacher has completed his goal to visit all the countries in the worldAnd in Chiang Mai, Thailand, a nonprofit group called Urban Light is offering alternatives to get teenage male prostitutes off the street, while in聽Lahore, Pakistan,聽members of the Jane Austen Society of Pakistan meet for high tea to discuss the works of their favorite author.
We seek peace in the toothpaste warI squeeze; my husband rolls. Was there room for compromise?
Meanwhile... more than 1.5 million South Koreans will have their debts paid off or restructured by National Happiness FundAnd in Ntagacha, Tanzania,聽young women are being taught to sew in order to give them a path to economic independence, while in Dubrovnik, Croatia,聽tourists are flooding into the medieval city, hoping to see some of the noteworthy sites where HBO blockbuster 鈥淕ame of Thrones鈥� was filmed.听- I鈥檓 encouraged to go higherA lesson I learned at a gym is one I hope my daughter will learn, too.
- Meanwhile... in Morocco, a group is experimenting with a new approach to the problem of abandoned childrenAnd in New Zealand,聽a few determined聽broadcasters have refused to stop using Maori words in their reporting, while in Uganda,聽comfort dogs are being used to help treat people with post-traumatic stress disorder.
My cupboard runneth overI was suddenly mugless, until friends pitched in. Then something else unexpected happened.
Meanwhile... in Gabon, scientists are asking concerned citizens around the world to help save elephantsAnd in Sweden,聽some girls are saying no to traditional Santa Lucia pageants, while on St. Helena,聽an ancient tortoise is looking forward to a new crowd of admirers.
How Pootie got his wayI didn鈥檛 want a Christmas tree, but my husband insisted that someone else truly did.
Meanwhile... In Rwanda, the Mahama refugee camp looks more like a city than campAnd in American Samoa, the members of firefighting Squad 61 have developed a motivational tool rarely if ever seen among other firefighters: They sing.
Ill-defined boundaries that are set in stoneFor this New Englander, permission to build a deck means scouring a thicket for obscure markers.
