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February 17, 2021 A multivolume set of books on Uzbekistan's cultural treasures is shown at a conference in Tashkent. (Photo by Larry Luxner) Uzbekistan’s Alisher Navoiy National Library is named after him. So is a metro station in Tashkent, the nation’s capital. Not to mention Navoi International Airport, as well as Uzbekistan’s second-largest province, Navoiy— home to a million people—and even a 41-mile-wide crater on the planet Mercury. We’re talking here, of course, about 15th-century poet, statesman and scholar Alisher Navoiy—considered the father of Uzbek literature. On Fe...

ALDEN WILLIAMS/STUFF Maddison Milne, 19 months, suffers from weak and floppy airways (severe distal tracheomalacia) and is now on a ventilator following surgery at Starship Hospital. Maddison Milne has spent 12 of her 19 months in hospital, but things are now looking up thanks to a tracheostomy​ tube and ventilator. AMBER ALLOTT reports. The living room of Laurel Gray’s home, in the quiet Christchurch suburb of Parklands, looks much like the living room of any family with a toddler. There’s a sea of plastic building blocks in pink, purple and blue. A coffee table littered with alphabe...