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The anecdotal takeaway: Better to encounter a mob of Indonesian adolescents on a dark street than their counterparts Down Under.

Leon Thomas Warmuth was born into the depression in 1933 near the town of San Joaquin California, not far from Fresno. His dad, Otto, was a share cropper. His mother, Leona, picked cotton.  He was the fifth of six children and had three sisters and two brothers.  

Harboring memories of fish smells, bruises from being banged up by waves and motion sickness Dramamine wouldn’t touch: Nope, can’t go on your boat.

℘℘℘ “I’ll take a funeral over a wedding any day,” declares John Patrick Shanley, 49, gleefully. The Bronx-born award-winning playwright, director and screenwriter, whose latest handiwork, Where’s My Money? was recently staged at New York’s City Center Theater, is quite vehement. “I think this is an area where I’m extremely Irish. The very concept of death is something that we Irish find cheerful and relaxing.” The mood description, cheerful and relaxed, seems to reflect h...

Jodie Botica and Julia Craig want to make it easier for young people to talk about loss. For many people, grief is private – and shameful. Two young women want to bring it out of the shadows. Jehan Casinader reports. Dusk was falling when Julia Craig arrived at the Devonport Folk Music Club on Auckland’s North Shore. It was a warm spring evening, perfect for a beer with mates. There was a band playing – a folk act with a double bass, a banjo and a smooth cover of Adele’s Rolling in th...

Hidden heroes of deployment: Girls go a year without mom Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune © Star Tribune/Star Tribune/Renee Jones Schneider - Star Tribune/Star Tribune/TNS Brian Chaffee talked to daughter Madison, 9, who had run away from the guests at her birthday party in Scandia, Minn., last year because she was missing her mom, National Guard First Sgt. Jen Chaffee. It was 3 a.m. in Arden Hills. Winds gusted to 30 miles per hour. "Brrr," said Madison Chaffee, not quite 9 years...