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Mechanization Brings Quick Change To Borneo Region Known For 'Slow Rice'
Monday, July 06, 2015
Change typically doesn't come fast or often in the Kelabit Highlands in the interior of Malaysian Borneo. "Go slowly" is both a motto and a way of life here. For centuries, even millennia, locals have gathered and grown their own foods in the dense tropical jungle. Rice is a ...
How Bicycles Are Helping To Heal Rwanda
Friday, May 08, 2015
This weekend, Rwanda will host the Africa Mountain Bike Tour, an Olympic-qualifying championship race.
That's no small thing for a sport that's historically been dominated by Western men. And it's a huge thing for a country still branded by its 1994 genocide, in which 800,000 people were killed in 100 ...
The Lone Buffalo Cleared Unexploded Bombs And Boosted Needy Kids
Monday, March 09, 2015
The Lone Buffalo is gone but his spirit lives on.
That's the nickname used by Manophet. I met him in Laos a decade ago while researching the unexploded bombs dropped by the United States during the Vietnam War.
Manophet knew all about the ordnance left behind: an estimated 80 million ...