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Alinda-Jane Hannah, a New Zealander living in Phuket, was nearly killed by the Dec. 26 tsunami. Driving along a road in the beachside town of Kamala, she and her 3-year-old daughter Nakita-Rose were almost washed away by the waves as they swamped the eastern coast of...
As his travels propelled the papacy out of what had effectively been its First World ghetto, tens of thousands of believers joined the church in countries where its potential for growth is the greatest. Worldwide, there has been a 41% increase in the number of Catholics (from 757 million in...
ENGIBOUS: Cell-phone technology is still developed in Western Europe and the U.S. Where are computers invented and designed? The U.S. But in India today, tens of thousands of engineers are writing software. The numbers don't support us continuing that lead for the next two generations. Education is our...
The same activists who helped introduce the world to dolphin-safe tuna are about to take consumers on a similarly gruesome guilt trip. In an effort to abolish Canada's government-sanctioned seal hunts, in which pups as young as 12 days are fair game to get clubbed to death...
As a crusading reporter for Poland's opposition Solidarity Weekly in the 1980s, Malgorzata Niezabitowska was among the most prominent voices of the revolution. She wrote exposés about illegal demonstrations and military crackdowns. With her husband, photographer Tomasz Tomaszewski, she chronicled the darkest days of martial law, smuggling...