Santa Cruz Island is about an hour by boat from the coast of Southern California. Santa Cruz was used for ranching in the 19th and 20th centuries. Now, students are helping bring wetlands back to the island. Irene Bailey works with the students. She says people brought invasive species to the island. This changed its environment. […]
An empty store becomes a restaurant. This building becomes a bicycle rental business, where people make fruit drinks. This is 25th Avenue in Denver, Colorado, an older part of the city where few people live. Community activists have changed the area, but only for a day. They are taking part in a national effort called the “Better Block Project.” […]
Britain’s National Spinal Injuries Center is pleased with its link to the Paralympic Games. The idea for the event began here 60 years ago. Dot Tussler is the head of physical therapy at the center. DOT TUSSLER: “We know some of those people competing, and we know that their journey started here, so we’re behind them all […]
Artist Tina Kannapel cuts and shapes eggshells with a dental drill and a steady hand. TINA KANNAPEL: “Eggs are a continuous arch. And because an eggshell is a continuous arch, it has a lot of natural strength. You will see eggshells where I’ve taken out so much that it looks like lace. And the whole, the […]
My name is Bill Junior, and this is the Everglades. Welcome to my office. This is where I make a living. It’s home. It’s awesome. I enjoy what I do out here. I come out here in the mornings. I’m out here every day — seven days a week. And, I enjoy showing the tourists all of the alligators […]
A company in Thailand says it has created a tool to help reduce language barriers among countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The company developed an application or app for smartphones. It is called ASEAN One. The app will explain about 100 useful explanations in English and the ten languages of ASEAN. The software company is called iGnite Asia. […]
Deep inside the ship named Golden Bear, it is hot — and the engines are noisy. But Vasile Tudoran loves what he is doing here. VASILE TUDORAN: “I knew I wanted to fix stuff since I was a little kid.” Vasile Tudoran is a mechanical engineering student at the California Maritime Academy. Most of the Academy’s students […]
Few women become top chefs in New York City. But Fatima Ali has done so. She is the assistant chef at Café Centro. She may be the only non-American female chef at any of 70 top New York restaurants. Ms. Ali grew up in Pakistan. She says her training in America has taught her a lot […]