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When the everyday looks special
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 09/10/2022
» Julie Blackmon grew up in Springfield, Missouri, a city of 165,000 people in the southern part of the state, and went to college there. She got married in Springfield and raised three children there.
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When you can take it with you -- just
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 13/03/2022
» If you were leaving home forever and had just a few hours to collect your thoughts and most precious belongings, items that would have to fit into a knapsack or purse, or just your pockets, what would you choose?
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Oscars, movies help pass the time on quarantined cruise ship
Life, Published on 12/02/2020
» Some cruise ship passengers savoured lavish meals; others watched movies or were glued to the live Academy Awards broadcast on Sunday. The lucky few whose turn it was to get fresh air paced the decks, revelling in a glimpse of blue sky.
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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?
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Orca mums pay price to feed sons
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 26/02/2023
» A fully grown male orca is one of the planet's fiercest hunters. He's a wily, streamlined torpedo who can weigh as much as 11 tonnes. No other animal preys on him. Yet in at least one population, these apex predators struggle to survive without their mums, who catch their food and even cut it up for them.
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Grandparents embrace digital age
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 11/12/2022
» The 65-year-old woman crouches in a field and holds up a head of cabbage. Behind her, two friends sway back and forth, cucumber and radish in their hands. "This rotten cabbage, let's pull it out, eat it, achieve some foodie freedom," Guo Yifen, the woman with the cabbage, raps in a low and creaky voice in the song Spicy Hot Pot Real Rap.
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Family behind Philippines' worst political massacre jailed
AFP, Published on 19/12/2019
» MANILA: The masterminds of the Philippines' worst political massacre were on Thursday found guilty of murder, a decade after the slaughter in which gunmen killed 58 people in the conflict-plagued south of the country.
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'Golden Gays' return to the stage
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 22/01/2023
» On weekdays in Manila, Philippines, Al Enriquez, 86, pushes a rickety wooden cart with a rainbow umbrella perched on the dilapidated wood. He sells candies and cigarettes outside of a bustling commuter supermarket, where the occasional smoker or a child with a few coins stops by to make a purchase.
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Russian 'Spyville' returns to Polish hands
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 15/05/2022
» Soviet diplomats moved out of the hulking Warsaw housing compound more than 30 years ago. But some Russians stayed behind, sheltering until the early 2000s behind a fence topped with barbed wire from a city that, with the collapse of their empire, had suddenly become hostile territory -- and an important intelligence target.
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Rich developer vs the local paper
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 28/08/2022
» Summers in Aspen are usually a breezy idyll of sunny hikes and ice-cream socials, a season when rich tourists fly in to attend jazz festivals and soak up mountain views from their US$1,000 (35,000 baht)-a-night hotel rooms.
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