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The Thin Red Line

Just after midnight on April 25th, a Syrian medical technician who calls himself Majid Daraya was sitting at home, in the city of Daraya, five miles from the outskirts of Damascus, when he heard an…
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1056 words)

A mysterious Iranian-run factory in Germany

DINSLAKEN, Germany — For years, mystery surrounded an Iranian-controlled factory tucked away in this town of 70,000 in Germany’s industrial west. The plant manufactured high-pressure…
PUBLISHED: April 15, 2013
LENGTH: 1 minutes (495 words)

Baltimore puts out welcome mat for immigrants, hoping to stop population decline

The fate of Baltimore may rest with immigrants like Alexandra Gonzalez. A native of Puebla, Mexico, Gonzalez feels more at home in Baltimore with every passing year. She attends city-run nutrition…
PUBLISHED: July 25, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (513 words)

“Black Box”

People rarely look the way you expect them to, even when you’ve seen pictures. The first thirty seconds in a person’s presence are the most important. If you’re having trouble…
PUBLISHED: June 2, 2012
LENGTH: 34 minutes (8508 words)

Bosnia: 20 years on

Visegrad, site of one of the worst atrocities of the Bosnian war, is still in denial about the past ©Paul LoweMayor Tomislav Popovic has a dark three-piece suit, a diffident demeanour and…
SOURCE:www.ft.com
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5539 words)

The Woman Who Knew Too Much

On the afternoon of July 18, in remarks from the Rose Garden amid the bruising showdown with congressional Republicans over the debt ceiling, President Obama made what the White House billed as…
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5858 words)

Caring for Your Introvert

The habits and needs of a little-understood group
PUBLISHED: March 1, 2003
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1376 words)
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