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Eighth Machine Gun Cavalry in action on the Mexican border. | Library of Congress
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Caring for the Elderly
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Migiwa Sugimoto is a visiting nurse who works as an assistant manager at “Kurashi no hokenshitsu” (counseling room), where many Tokyo senior citizens visit to consult about their health and other worries. 
Angela Brussel's Armenian Family | Courtesy of the author
An author's cathartic culinary journey as she reflects on her family's harrowing experience through the Armenian genocide.
Dessert selections at Porto's | Courtesy of Porto's
Porto's Bakery sells about 1.2 million cheese rolls and 550,000 potato balls per month. But this bakery that could was once a black market business born in Communist Cuba.
Big Cities: Seven
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Urban planners and average citizens in Thailand and Bogota are seeking solutions to ease congestion in their crowded cities.
A baby plays alongside a woman braiding rope for the Q'eswachaka Bridge reconstruction.
Having suffered great climatic, social, and political changes for centuries, the people native to Peru's Quehue region have learned to face change armed only with their ancestral knowledge.
Still from QLM's "The Vertical Village"
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Many people are ditching the confines of traditional apartment life and opting for communal living instead.
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Amid state housing crisis, why 2 out of 5 California millennials really still live at home
Leigh Adams
Women living in large cities are turning to farming to regain control of their food. Hear their stories and recommendations on how you can grow your own urban garden.
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In Hamburg, a group of electronic hobby inventors spent four weeks building their own mobile phones in a do-it-yourself workshop.
Immigrants take a workshop to make a preparedness plan, in case they are confronted by immigration officials
Concerns about deportation are high among worries for County residents
Summer Olympic games in Los Angeles Aug.8, 1984. | photo by Associated Press
The Olympic Movement Is Relentlessly Corrupt, so Why Should Southern California Help Save It?
 Eve Ensler & Christine Schuler
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Eve Ensler, playwright, author of "The Vagina Monologues," and Christine Schuler Deschryver, director of V-Day Congo explore the mindset of violence against women, the vulnerable, and the environment promoted by President Trump.
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