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17 Dec

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Kenya offers cautionary tale on abortion

by · December 17, 2012 · 5 Comments

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Although the November elections yielded women-friendly returns, the War on Women continues, both in the US and around the world. In the last week alone the Michigan Congress pass a bill limiting abortions and Texas Governor Rick Perry announced his goal to eventually make “abortion, at any stage, a thing of the past.” In the [...]

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26 Nov

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Finding a new branch of my family tree in Thailand

by · November 26, 2012 · 0 Comments

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BANGKOK, Thailand– They were complete strangers, but it instantly felt like a family reunion. One week before I departed for my first international reporting trip, my grandmother Cece and my great aunt Karen casually drop to me on Facebook that, oh by the way, I have relatives in Thailand. Come again? Now I’m from a long and [...]

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