It is new technology using an old material silk. You can make cups, bones, other body parts and useful things from the cocoon of the silk worm. Amazing!
FROM CNN Freedom Project — Ending Modern-Day Slavery
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Moulkheir Mint Yarba returned from a day of tending her master’s goats out on the Sahara Desert to find something unimaginable: Her baby girl, barely old enough to crawl, had been left outdoors to die.
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Moulkheir Mint Yarba escaped slavery in 2010. She has asked the Mauritanian courts to prosecute her slave masters. “I demand justice,” she says, “justice for my daughter that they killed and justice for all the time they spent beating and abusing me.”
I recently watched the movie ‘A Better Life’ which is a poignant story of undocumented migrants. The last scene in the movie is a led in to this piece.
Not many people consider the human side of immigration, let alone take the time to document the belongings of those left behind by the migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Worn sneakers, dirty backpacks and empty water bottles fill the Sonoran desert. Each object tells a story of struggle, hope and determination and it wasn’t until recently that they were collected for anthropologists hoping to study the science behind migration phenomenon.
Jetman Yves Rossy isn’t waiting for the promise of personal flight to come to him–he’s jumping out of a plane after it! We head to Bex, Switzerland to catch up with Yves and his jet-powered carbon wing.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas infant who vanished eight years ago will be reunited with his mother after police arrested his former baby sitter who is accused of kidnapping him, authorities said Wednesday.
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Syrians in the devastated city of Homs have described the harrowing moment that government forces rounded up whole families, divided the children from their mothers and then burned them alive.
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