How to mend a broken heart

    How to mend a broken heart

    We’ve all been there. The soul-crushing, second-guessing, stomach-twisting depths of despair that can only mean one thing: you just broke up. Our writer travels to Croatia’s newly opened Museum of Broken Hearts to find out why, exactly, heartache’s grip is so profound—and whether science may someday allow us to bypass it entirely.

    By Shannon Service

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    Ghosts of El Salvador

    Ghosts of El Salvador

    Salvadorans have determined to acknowledge and investigate the atrocities of their country’s civil war. Our reporter shines a light on a buried war crime that should change the way the current generation understands its history.

    By Dara Kerr

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    Nowhere people

    Nowhere people

    What happens when the past is too painful for memory and the future too bleak for hope? Over a summer spent teaching video story-telling in a Kenyan refugee camp, a journalist discovers that for the seventy-six thousand displaced refugees living there, life remains stunted in the permanent uncertainty of now.

    By Becky Palmstrom

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    This forest brought to you by Coca-Cola and ConocoPhillips

    This forest brought to you by Coca-Cola and ConocoPhillips

    In San Diego County, a first-of-its kind reforestation project is marrying corporate sponsors with public lands. And these carbon sequestration projects may be the wave of the future, since they seem to be the only way California can afford to replant its trees.

    By Linnea Edmeier

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    It's complicated

    It’s complicated

    The hard part was supposed to be transitioning to life as a woman. But as this writer finds, the greatest challenge facing one transgender Latino woman is reconciling her transforming body with her wife, her family, and her faith.

    By Rosa Ramirez

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