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In an Indian Village, Cultivating Girls’ Big-League Dreams
The girls arrive at the makeshift cricket ground on their bicycles, a narrow file of white athletic uniforms breezing down a dirt track that cuts through lush wheat fields in India’s Punjab region. They wear their names and numbers on their backs ...
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In Rural Ukraine, Medicine and Hope Roll In on a Truck
Young mothers gather with baby carriages in the morning chill and exchange village gossip while waiting to visit a health clinic on a truck. The vehicle’s arrival is a big event. For eight months, the village of Levkivka in eastern Ukraine was under ...
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How a Chance Discovery of Old Negatives Revealed a Master Photographer
For Zaharia Cusnir, photography was an all-consuming passion. Now, nearly 30 years after he died in obscurity, the Moldovan’s fame is rising.
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An Agonizing Wait for a Migrant Worker’s Final Journey Home
When the body arrived, weeks after the laborer’s death in a faraway country, it was almost 9 p.m. and the village was dark. Because so much time had passed, and no one could be sure of the remains’ condition, the family did not risk a stop at home ...
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Haunted by Disaster, Volunteers Search for Survivors in Indonesia
Heavy rains drenched the collapsed mountainside, making sludge of the rust-colored soil. Intermittently, the earth violently shuddered as an ...