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Photo by George J. Tanber

City Architect Challenged with Planning Strategy in Centuries Old Capital

TALLINN, Estonia – Seven days on the job as this capital city’s architect and Andro Mänd's mind was spinning....

Photo by George J. Tanber

Fintech Leader Promotes Green Investing For Self-Reliance

TALLINN, Estonia - When Triin Hertmann tells me straight away at our first meeting she doesn’t have her “A” ga...

Photo by George J. Tanber

Home Away from Home No Problem for American Guitar Restoration Maestro

HELSINKI, Finland – If Scott Morgan’s life were a sheet of music his personal geography would run up and down...

Photo by Dick Abraham

The Ultimate Fan - and Family Man

A battered Mike Schwartz revels in an epic 32-31 victory by his beloved Oregon Ducks over Ohio State on a beau...

Photo by George J. Tanber

Reindeer-Herding Family Combines Old School
Ways with Innovative Entrepreneurship

INARI, Lapland – When I first arranged with Raisa Kitti to meet at her Lapland home, 165 miles north of the Ar...

Photo by George J. Tanber

Finns Near Shuttered Russian
Border Face Uncertain Future

IMATRA, Finland – Miia Torikka had just received a dispiriting phone call when I dropped in on her at the busi...

Janne Wickman and his wife, Lorena:  Don't know why we're No. 1

American Reporter Seeks Unhappy Finns

HELSINKI, Finland – I arrived in this under-the-radar Scandinavian country sandwiched between Sweden and Russi...

Photo by George J. Tanber

The Nine Lives of Barra Grande

BARRA GRANDE, Brazil – I’m sitting at a beachfront café table overlooking the Atlantic in Barra Grande, the vi...

Photo by George J. Tanber

Parnaiba River Delta Journey: Natural Diversity Beyond Compare

PORTO DOS TATUS, Brazil – On a warm spring morning we motored up the Rio dos Morros, working our way through a...

Photo by George J. Tanber

At 92, Soccer’s Legendary ‘Thin
Man of Steel’ Lives on

TERESINA, Brazil – When you meet Carlos Said for the first time you are struck by his voice – or lack of it. M...

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