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Out of the dark room, into the light
By Lucky Gold, CNN
Imagine a world where a nanny became one of the world's great photographers – six years after her death.
Vivian Maier's self-portraits are mesmerizing, but they tell us very little about the enigmatic woman who spent the 1950's and '60's in Chicago.
Caring for children to make a living and cradling a camera to pursue her secret passion: capturing the extraordinary in ordinary people.
Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits, PowerHouse Books
She might have died as anonymously as she lived, if the thousands of undeveloped negatives she left behind weren't bought at a local auction for a few hundred dollars.
A new space race, with new players
By Lucky Gold, CNN
Imagine a world where a new race for outer space – with new players – has achieved lift-off.
Over fifty years ago, U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced America’s intention to beat the Soviet Union to the moon.
Today, a spacecraft was rocketed into orbit, the first stage in an ambitious mission to mars. But it wasn't launched by the United States or Russia.
The un-manned spacecraft was launched by India – for the relatively bargain-basement cost of $73 million.
It is scheduled to reach the red planet sometime next year, where it will conduct scientific experiments.
Interactive: Mars exploration from Viking to MAVEN
While some say India should spend its treasure feeding its children – among the most malnourished on earth – India is also a global economic power, in open competition for research and resources.
In Yorkshire, the moor the merrier
By Lucky Gold, CNN
With Halloween upon us, imagine a world where the landscape of nightmares is now one of the world's top tourist destinations.
The lonely moors and fog-swept dales of Yorkshire in the north of England have long been a source of gloomy inspiration.
Bram Stoker was drawn to the ruins of Whitby Abbey and made it the setting for his horror classic, Dracula.
And Sherlock Holmes famously roamed those same moors in pursuit of the dreaded hound of the Baskervilles.
Not to mention Heathcliff and Jane Eyre, who wandered through the imagination of the Brontë sisters.
But Yorkshire is more than gloom; more even than a puffy pudding that goes with roast beef at Sunday lunch; more than the name of a cute little terrier that you can fit in a purse.
Remembering Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland’s moral compass
By Lucky Gold, CNN
Imagine a world where a shy, devout intellectual took on an all-seeing, all-powerful leader - and helped create Eastern Europe’s first modern democracy.
Tadeusz Mazowiecki was a journalist and activist when his native Poland was in the iron grip of soviet communism.
When Polish workers struck at the Gdansk shipyard in 1980 launching the solidarity movement, Mazowiecki joined the protests.
Norwegian town brightens the winter with mirrors
By Lucky Gold, CNN
Imagine a world where your home, once shrouded in darkness, is lit by an artificial sun.
The view from the mountains of southern Norway, towering over six thousand feet, is spectacular – a must-see for hikers and skiers.
But for half the year, more than three thousand residents down below in the town of Rjukan are starved for sunlight, forced to take a cable car up the slopes just to catch some rays and vitamin D.
That is, until now.
A medieval message of humility for Bling Bishop, 500 years later
By Lucky Gold, CNN
Imagine a world where a medieval message of humility and reform is delivered five centuries later.
From the moment he first appeared on the Vatican balcony, Pope Francis has challenged his fellow priests to put aside the trappings of wealth and power.
Whether washing feet at Eastertide or carrying his own bag and driving his own little car, the pope has walked the talk.
On Wednesday he made another kind of statement, by suspending a German bishop whose personal excesses had earned him the nickname ‘The Bishop of Bling.’
Polio rises from the grave
By Lucky Gold, CNN
The World Health Organization is awaiting confirmation of a possible outbreak of polio in Eastern Syria.
If confirmed, they would be the country's first such cases in 14 years.
In 2010, Syria's vaccination rate was 95%, among the highest in the region. But after two-and-a-half years of war, the vaccination rate has plummeted to 45%.
And Syria isn't the only breeding ground.
In Pakistan, the Taliban has banned vaccinations and targeted health workers – in part as retaliation for the C.I.A. plot to find Osama bin Laden.
Indeed, a Pakistani doctor was convicted of treason for using another kind of vaccination as a ruse to discover bin Laden's whereabouts.
So far this year, nearly 300 cases of polio have been reported – from places that know it all too well like Afghanistan and Nigeria, to countries like Somalia and Sudan, which had been considered polio-free.
There is no cure for polio – a silent, symptomless virus.
But, like war itself, it can be prevented.
The Friends of Syria met Tuesday in London, in the hopes of jump-starting peace talks in Geneva next month.
The specter of polio's return should be a reminder of what's at stake.
To save the rhino and the soul of a continent
By Lucky Gold, CNN
Mahatma Gandhi once said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
By that standard, Africa is failing its wildlife population, and in particular the endangered rhino.
Amanpour has reported before on this tragedy – what's become an organized crime wave against Mother Nature.
Since 2007, rhino deaths have increased by a staggering 3,000%.
Amanpour: Bosnia World Cup qualification ‘brings a huge smile to my face’
By Christiane Amanpour, CNN
I remember Bosnia, especially Sarajevo during the war – people loved soccer. Whenever there was a lull in the shelling or the sniping, they would play.
But over the course of nearly four years of war, some of the city’s soccer fields became graveyards, and I stood there as formal cemeteries overflowed with the war dead. Stadiums were shelled and it was all but impossible even to leave for formal matches abroad.
Sarajevo once had the world’s sporting spotlight shining down on it – as host of the 1984 Winter Olympics. The ice skating rink that gave the world gold medallists, Torvill and Dean, was destroyed during the war and it seemed to symbolize all the hope that was seeping out of Sarajevo – and all of Bosnia Herzegovina.
So as Bosnia and Herzegovina qualifies for the first time for the World Cup, there’s certainly a bittersweet feeling to it, it brings a huge smile to my face because it’s wonderful to see Bosnia, to see the city of Sarajevo erupt in such well-deserved celebration.
This will unite people.
Vietnam’s “Greatest Generation”
By Lucky Gold, CNN
Imagine a world where a self-taught soldier wrote the playbook for modern insurgency – and used it to defeat two mighty armies.
Vietnam is planning a state funeral to honor General Vo Nguyen Giap, who died on Friday at the age of 102.
More than half a century ago, as a history teacher, he joined forces with a former bus-boy named ho chi minh to create a lethal guerrilla army.
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