World Horizons
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Italy: Silky smooth revival
Clusters of silkworms munch on piles of locally grown mulberry leaves in Italy’s northern Veneto region. They are nourishing hopes of a revival of Italy’s 1,000-year-old silk industry. Decades after…
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Zimbabwe: CASH as souvenirs
On the online auction site eBay, a 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar note is a collector’s item fetching up to U.S. $35, a small fortune compared with the U.S. 40 cents…
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Africa: Albino hunters beware
Malawi has ordered police to shoot “dangerous criminals” who attack albinos to sell their body parts for witchcraft. “Shoot every criminal who is violent when caught red-handed abducting people with…
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Poland/Russia: Answering the call of duty
NATO aircraft scream across Eastern European skies, and American armored vehicles rumble near the border with Russia on a mission to reassure citizens that they’re safe from Russian aggression. These…
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