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Postwar adoptee spends his final days helping orphans

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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A photo of a 12-year-old North Korean boy on Sam Han’s laptop computer pulls the dying man a half-century back in time

‘Coupon generation’ wields consumer power in China

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BEIJING (AP) — Ding Can is obsessed with bargains. Her purse is crammed with more than 30 shopper discount cards and dozens of coupons.

Medical refugees find themselves shut out from the care they need

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Serah Alexander lives under the crushing weight of medical bills. The mother of three was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer that has spread to her bones.

Private school finds answers in Singapore method

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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Educators at a small private Christian school in Olde Town Augusta are seeing results with a math curriculum imported from halfway around the world.

NWAW’s December must-reads

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“Buddha’s Orphans” is a love story between Raja, an orphan boy whose mother drowned herself when he was a baby, and Nilu, a girl born into privilege.

Column: Local Mars Hill Church pastor Mark Driscoll bashes yoga and ‘Easternism’

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Last fall, Dr. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, received national attention for an article

Cambodian refugee goes home as U.S. Navy commander

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SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (AP) — The distant thuds of gunfire and bombs weren’t nearly as memorable for Michael Misiewicz as fishing barehanded with

Japanese prisons are facing a swelling elderly population

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ONOMICHI, Japan (AP) — Handrails run down the middle of the hallway to help prisoners make their way from one end to the other. Adult diapers are neatly