I met Az Samad several years ago when he was backing a singer at a Songsalive! showcase. He had literally just arrived in California from his native Kuala Lumpur and was ready to take on...
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Petrified Forest National Park is an easy exit from I-40 in the wide open spaces of Northern Arizona. Perhaps it is those vast desert plains, or deep blue skies,...
Here we’d like to present you wonderful and interesting statistics about what people from other countries do know about Russia. Sounds interesting, isn’t it?
Tokyo, November 2008, the waiter in a sushi-bar. The Japanese, never been...
Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine. October 24, 2010. It’s 3 am. I can’t sleep.
Did you know Bethlehem is surrounded (on 3 sides) by a 27 foot tall segregation wall? Not a wall of choice, a wall put up...
Finding the right taste is very important,” said Dr. Maria Isabel Andrade, Sweet Potato Specialist at the International Potato Center’s office—a Peruvian-based organization working to improve global food security through improved root and tuber varieties and cultivation techniques— in Maputo, Mozambique. ...
This morning brought on an unexpected excursion into Istanbul; we drove from Kemerburgaz through the winding, narrow streets of Bebek that find themselves sprawled over hill tops and along the Bosphorus River. Bebek, located on...
“Talent is universal but opportunity is not,” said U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, when she presented the First Annual 2010 Fairness Award to Ela Bhatt, founder of the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) earlier...
The facade of a window on the Thaddeus Stevens School on Spring Garden Street....
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