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Lucky girl
In a true story of family ties, journalist Hopgood, one of the first wave of Asian adoptees to arrive in America, comes face to face with her past when her Chinese birth family suddenly requests a reunion after more than two decades.
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Daughter of the disappeared
Victoria contacted her mother's side of the family, who'd since moved to Canada. But she resisted getting to know them, sure they would detest the people who'd raised her, whom she continued to love. Then, in March 2005, [Cori]'s sister -- [Victoria Donda]'s aunt -- contacted her to tell her that Cori's mother, Leontina, Victoria's maternal grandmother, had Alzheimer's disease.
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How Eskimos keep their babies warm : and other adventures in parenting (from Argentina to Tanzania and everywhere in between)
Hopgood discusses how cultural expectations and customs determine the way kids are raised--from how Kenyans live without strollers to how the Chinese potty train early.
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DANGER IN THE HIGHLANDS IN THE Series: CASUALTIES OF PEACE PART THREE OF SEVEN PARTS
CHRIS STEWART/DAYTON DAILY NEWS STUDENTS AT ST. STEPHEN'S High School in Mohale's Hoek, Lesotho, hold hands after an AIDS program led by Peace Corps volunteer Michael Coleman. An estimated one-third of the small country's population is infected with HIV-AIDS. CHRIS STEWART/DAYTON DAILY NEWS CHILDREN PASS THE afternoon on a rock in southwest Lesotho. (Left to right) Keketso Ralineo, Lefu Ralineo and Lehlohonolo Mosoeu live in the village of Ha Mopooane. CHRIS STEWART/DAYTON DAILY NEWS PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER [Chad DuMond] was shot during a struggle with a carjacker in Lesotho in 2000. The small country in southern Africa is one of the more dangerous countries in the world for Peace Corps volunteers. The Peace Corps `left me completely on my own during a very scary, terrifying period of my life,' DuMond said. His case remains unsolved. CORPS: Despite its beauty, Lesotho remains danger zone Small, beautiful African country of Lesotho has violent history for Peace Corps volunteers
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Beijing Blast
\"China's boom is sustainable as long as the 'catching-up' process is allowed to proceed,\" says Wing Thye Woo, an economist at the University of California Davis who has been a consultant to the Chinese Ministry of Finance and an advisor to the United Nations on Asian economic development. \"Politically, the legitimacy of the Chinese state is based on nurturing this catching-up process.\"
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Inside Peru: When school's done, boy heads for beach
Sometimes his family visits Paracas and Nazca in southern Peru, where Nazca Indians long ago drew animals 300 to 650 feet across. You can only see them from the sky. They also go to Cieneguilla Valley and eat a mix of meat, potatoes and vegetables called pachamanca. That means \"earth pot\" in an old Indian language and fits the meal because it's cooked in a pot in the ground.
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DIG IT!: For a boy in Argentina, weekends in the desert mean searching for and studying dinosaur fossils
On most Fridays, Santiago and his dad drive 55 miles from their home in Neuquen (new-KEN) to a desert area of Patagonia. Patagonia includes the southern halves of Argentina and Chile. It's bigger than Texas and California combined and once was a lush forest where many animals lived. Patagonia is a very diverse region with high mountains in one area, glaciers in another and a desert, too. Argentina was the home of the largest dinosaur --- the Giganotosaurus, which had a 45-foot body, a 6-foot-long head and 8- inch piercing teeth. The Argentinosaurus, which was the largest plant-eating dinosaur, lived here, too. It stood 70 feet tall and was 120 feet from head to tail. (You can see a replica of it at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta.) CAPTION: MEI-LING HOPGOOD / Special Nine-year-old [Santiago Calvo] helps his dad, [Jorge Calvo], and other paleontologists look for dinosaurs in Patagonia, an area of Argentina and Chile where lots of dinosaur bones have been found.
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DATELINE: BUENOS AIRES: Fallen Argentine idol back from oblivion
\"Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! [Diego Maradona]! Diego!\" the crowd chanted, frantic. Although the program has included several prominent and popular Argentine celebrities, it is virtually a Diego love fest: praise, replays of his goals, songs about him and messages from his fans. Each of the white leather chairs where guests sit is embossed with a large picture of Maradona's face. Many Argentines affectionately call the show \"the night of god.\" CAPTION: Canal 13 Canal 13 Diego Maradona talks with Brazilian soccer legend Pele on Maradona's TV show in August. The two traded cautionary tales about the drug addictions of Maradona and of Pele's son.
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