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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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

American Reporter Seeks Unhappy Finns

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

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...

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...

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...