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Building Rural Libraries Close to Heaven

Adam Pervez | Posted 02.12.2013 | Impact
Read More: Andes, Ngo, Retirees, Literacy, Peru, Lima-Peru, Public Libraries, Libraries, Non-Profits, Village, Education, Community, Slidefreestyle, Community Development, Impact News
Adam Pervez

How do you bring the world to a remote Andean village? More than the world, how do you give kids in your birth village access to knowledge beyond the school curriculum and local folklore?

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An Enlightening Week In Laos

Adam Pervez | Posted 01.26.2013 | Travel
Read More: Voluntourism, Volunteering, Papaya, Teaching English, Travel, Village, Laos, Bamboo, Volunteerism, Vientiane, Slidepollajax, Video, Travel News
Adam Pervez

After the prayers, rice was thrown all around and the white strings decorating the marigold centerpiece were taken by the villagers and put on my wrists.

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The Power Of A Shared Meal

Anna Brones | Posted 12.30.2012 | Home
Read More: Kabul, Food, People, Eating, Travel, Afghanistan, Village, Rural, Culture, Home News
Anna Brones

Food and travel go hand in hand, not just because it allows a view into a culture, but also because it provides a thread for connecting two people from two very different places. Put a pot of tea in the center of table and language barriers immediately begin to wash away.

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Tuscan Village For Sale On eBay

The Huffington Post | Posted 06.28.2012 | Business
Read More: Ebay, Italian Village Sale, Tuscan Village Sale Pratariccia, 3.1 Million Village, Pratariccia, Village, Italy, Tuscan Village for Sale, Italian Ebay, Tuscany, Medeival Village for Sale, Business News

Remember that episode of Seinfeld where Jerry wants to rent a house in Tuscany, but the Maestro insists there's nothing available? Well, forget the...

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Spend Presidents Day Weekend At Mont Tremblant

The Ski Channel | Posted 04.17.2012 | Travel
Read More: Snow Bunny, Snowboarders, Weekend, Quebec, Travel, Gondola, Mountain, European, Canada, Presidents Day, Resort, Toufou, Snow, Powder, Saturday Night Fever, Skiers, Village, Mount Tremblant, Video, Travel News
The Ski Channel

You'll get to rip down the tube slalom run and be whisked back up by the neighboring magic carpet to do it all over again.

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Family Googled 'Easiest Way To Kill An Old Person' Before Beating Grandpa With Bricks

Posted 12.03.2011 | Crime
Read More: Murder, England Crime, Video, Winchester, UK Crime, England, Inheritance, Easiest Way to Kill Someone, Hants, Assault, Village, Bricks, Murder Plot, Toadstools, Crime News

Before attempting to murder an 89-year-old relative for inheritance money, a British family Googled "the easiest way to kill an old person," according...

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Ghana Speaking (II): Village Living in Kwabeng

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Chris Lydon, Africa, Brown University, Ghana, Village, Christopher Lydon, Ghana Healthcare, Obama, Obama Ghana, World News
Christopher Lydon

The burdens on ten thousand villagers in Kwabeng, in Ghana's Eastern Region, begin with infectious diseases: malaria, typhus, HIV. They have no hospital, no resident doctor.

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Marathon Mileposts

NYCity News Service | NYCity News Service | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Cincinnati, Village, Miami, New York City-New York, Chicago-Wisconsin, Japan, Home News

A CHILLY START STATEN ISLAND - Just before 6 a.m., small groups of runners spilled out of already-full tents as fresh arrivals clamored for a spot, se...

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Ntoto: Life in the Village or Life on the Run

Refugees International | Refugees International | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Village, Democratic Republic of Congo, Home News

I am writing from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a country with incredible natural beauty, a bounty of mineral resources and site of a brutal...

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One Man's Tireless Effort to Provide ICT Education to Nepalese Students

Subhash Ghimire | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Village, Allen Tuladhar, Ict, Technology, Computer Nepal, Nepal, Microsoft, Sysco, Tele-Centers, Millenium Development Goal, Intel, Optical Character Recognition, ICT Development Center, Kathmandu, World Outreach, Panauti, Ibm, OCR, Technology News
Subhash Ghimire

With few exceptions, Nepalese business and political leaders often dismiss young people when they come up with ambitious ideas. Unless they change their attitude, Nepal's future remains gloomy.

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An Obama Village Fantasy

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Recycling, Self-Sufficiency, Libraries, Economy, Architecture, Design, Environment, Pedestrian Solutions, Construction, Village, Residences, Schools, Business, Human Settlements, New Settlements, Green News
Stephen C. Rose

Just an initial effort to think about human settlements as they might develop during coming years. An Obama Village would have a population of plus o...

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