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Ancient tongue gets reboot
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 11/12/2022
» The squeals of laughter echoing from the playground sound like any other elementary school in its first week back in session.
Right-wing health myths outlive Covid
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 11/12/2022
» Not long after Randy Watt died of Covid-19, his daughter Danielle sat down at her computer, searching for clues as to why the smart and thoughtful man she knew had refused to get vaccinated. She pulled up Google, typed in a screen name he had used in the past and discovered a secret that stunned her.
UK royals show ruthlessness in race row
AFP, Published on 01/12/2022
» LONDON: The timing could not have been worse for Britain's royal family, not long after one racial reckoning involving Prince Harry and ahead of a new publicity blitz from the maverick "spare heir".
'Fast Furniture' falls out of fashion
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 20/11/2022
» Americans bought piles of furniture during the pandemic, with sales on desks, chairs and patio equipment jumping by more than US$4 billion (149.3 billion baht) from 2019 to 2021, according to a market data company. And a lot of it won't survive the decade.
Preserving tattoos of the dead
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 20/11/2022
» Jonathan Gil knew he would never forget the details of the day his 24-year-old twin brother died in a boating accident on Lake Hopatcong in northern New Jersey -- the frantic phone call from a friend, the dire search by rescuers and the dread of breaking the grim news to his mother.
Embalming, the dying science
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 20/11/2022
» Walk down two flights of stairs at the back entrance of the James Hunt Funeral Home in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and you reach a white-walled, linoleum-floored, fluorescently lit room, a liminal space that provides the beginning of an answer to one of the oldest and most confounding questions of the human experience: What happens to us when we die?
War amputees forge bonds in recovery
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 13/11/2022
» In all of its decades of service, Truskavets City Hospital, an old medical centre serving a city in western Ukraine, never had to specialise in treating amputees. But things change -- sometimes in seconds, and with the roar of an incoming rocket.
Don't lick psychedelic toads, US park visitors told
AFP, Published on 09/11/2022
» LOS ANGELES: US park officials have asked visitors to stop licking psychedelic toads, warning that anyone seeking a hallucinogenic high from the wart-covered amphibians is more likely to end up seriously ill.
Hunger for coal dooms tiny village
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 06/11/2022
» For months, die-hard environmental activists have camped in the fields and occupied the trees in this tiny farming village in western Germany, hoping that like-minded people from across the country would arrive and help stop the expansion of a nearby open-pit coal mine that threatened to swallow the village and its farms.
Inside the wait for refugee status
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 06/11/2022
» For the past eight years, Ahmed Mohamed Aden has been trying to reunite with the sons he left behind when he fled Somalia.