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Mayor Leads Village to Surprising Success
DEIR EL GHAZAL, Lebanon – Amid a collapsed banking system, corrupt and ineffective government and resulting na...
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Young Albanians, Seeking Independence, Caught Between Old Ways - and the New
TIRANA, Albania – During the few nights I spent in this capital city I noticed the cafes and bars in my neighb...
Albanian Community Service
Activist Leads by Example
KRUJE, Albania – For the past several years I’ve served as a judge for a national service organization that aw...
Film Producer’s Work Helps
Ease Scars from Communist Era
TIRANA, Albania – To truly appreciate and understand freedom you either had to have fought for it or lived und...
Bonding at Breakfast with Tirana Hotelier
TIRANA, Albania – I’m eating breakfast at the City Hotel Tirana. A plain omelet, chunk of feta cheese, tasty l...
Teenaged Asylum-Seeker Returns Home to Forge Previously Unthinkable Career
TIRANA, Albania – In my 17th summer, I was preparing for my final year of high school and thinking about which...
Technology Enhances Travel, Diminishes Adventure
TIRANA, Albania – Last night, the White Sox beat the Yankees in a 9-8 thriller at the Dyersville, Iowa ballfie...
Long-Awaited Balkans Journey
Finally Achieved 47 Years Later
TIRANA, Albania – Do you have any idea how long I’ve waited to type that dateline? I’ll tell you....
Local Vaccine Center Impresses in its Operation
MAUMEE - Ohio -- When I arrived at the Lucas County [Ohio] Recreation Center on Feb. 17 at the pre-appointed t...
Seeking a Jerk Chicken Grill? See the Metal Man
PORT ANTONIO, Jamaica – I first spot him when we are stuck in evening traffic on one of the main commercial s...