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• Welcome the world’s newest welcome mat
• San Juan residents pitch in with cleanup, lifting their own spirits
• 'Blade Runner 2049': Why some science fiction writers are tired of dystopias
• As risks and borders rise, migrants turn back – but with new purpose at home

Welcome the world’s newest welcome mat Posted: 06 Oct 2017 10:55 AM PDT The world has many "clubs" of nations, grouped by shared interests, but none like an unofficial one often cited by the United Nations for its generosity. It includes only a few countries, such as Uganda, Jordan, and Turkey. Now add Bangladesh to this "club." In recent weeks, the South Asian country, where a third of people live on less than $2 a day, has allowed in more than half a million Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar (Burma).

San Juan residents pitch in with cleanup, lifting their own spirits Posted: 06 Oct 2017 09:11 AM PDT When Paula Paulino saw the destruction that hurricane Maria left in its wake at the once-lush Rio Piedras main campus of the University of Puerto Rico, she felt empty and lost. Recommended: How well do you know Puerto Rico? There can be no varnishing over of Puerto Rico's broken state.

'Blade Runner 2049': Why some science fiction writers are tired of dystopias Posted: 06 Oct 2017 08:37 AM PDT In "Blade Runner 2049," which opens Friday, post eco-disaster Los Angeles has built a massive coastline wall to fend off rising ocean levels. Few of the overpopulated city's human or android occupants have ever seen a tree or a real animal. The incessant rain is as dour as Harrison Ford's facial expressions. Worst of all? One character bemoans the fact that there's no more cheese in the world.

As risks and borders rise, migrants turn back – but with new purpose at home Posted: 06 Oct 2017 08:05 AM PDT Separately, each one crossed the world's largest desert, evaded slavers, and paid thousands of dollars to be smuggled across war-torn Libya – where they were discovered and detained by authorities, they say. Three months into the men's detention, representatives of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) visited the prison and offered them tickets home. Dreams of reaching Europe had been dashed, but they had a new appreciation for their homeland.

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