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Walk The Line

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64SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Original blog from Elias Popa, Within Reach Global intern: The Seasoned Explorer » Walk The Line. After almost 11 hours ride, we finally made it to the tiny village on the top of the mountains near Vietnam. If the car ride didn’t make us uncomfortable, the intense heat and humidity did. Surrounded…

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A Crippled Hero

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64SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List He is an unlikely hero brimming with unassuming nobility. But the reality is, if you were to walk past him on a crowded Chinese sidewalk, you might not recognize it. You would notice him, no doubt, as he hobbled past you with shriveled leg, his body suspended in mid…

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On Chinese Beaches, The Face-Kini Is In Fashion

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284SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I felt like this was something you really needed to know… by BILL CHAPPELL via On Chinese Beaches, The Face-Kini Is In Fashion : The Two-Way : NPR. Chinese beachgoers wear face-kinis in Qingdao, northeast China’s Shandong province. The face masks allow people to enjoy the water and sand —…

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A Beggar Kissed Me Today

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164SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List It was a brief transaction, simple, I thought, but much bigger than I may have realized. A glimpse. A moment. I was on my way to the grocery store to buy veggies for my wife when a middle aged man approached me. He wore flip flops and a yellow…

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