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The Great East Coast Rumbler of 2011 has, for the most part, produced a lot of bad news. Not terrible news, mind you — just mildly inconvenient, bummer-type...
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The Efata School for the Deaf in Iquitos, Peru could easily be mistaken for a school in a ghost town. The three classrooms behind concrete walls layered in...
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There are things that people with perfect hearing take for granted. The ability to hear sound underwater is one of them. At first thought, it may not seem like...
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One of the goals of the Hear the World expedition, in addition to exploring the Peruvian Amazon, is to break down the barriers of communication between...
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What does it mean to do service? The group of students who have descended on the Peruvian rainforest as part of Hear the World's Global Explorers trip tried to...
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What does the jungle sound like? So many things. It sounds like katydids telling each other where to look for food, the smoky jungle frog bellowing for a mate,...
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Imagine going through high school and never being able to hear someone whispering in your ear, or whispering about you for that matter. Or being a...
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It's an astonishing feat in itself that at five years old, little Leo Haines is already an accomplished painter showing his work at his own exhibition. But,...
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David Steiner and Jared Roxby were having trouble finding reliable workers for the NYC maid cleaning service they launched 16 months ago when they found an...
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There are 10,000 children in Afghanistan who have no communication with the world. They are left to lead lives of solitude, without the opportunity for...
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