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• In museum's ashes, Brazilians see 'tragic metaphor' of country's crises
• Blue wave euphoria? Why it hasn't reached this corner of Baltimore
• A year later, Puerto Rico says ‘Come on down’
• Boruboru: South Sudan’s newest spectator sport is one for the girls

In museum's ashes, Brazilians see 'tragic metaphor' of country's crises Posted: 05 Sep 2018 02:37 PM PDT As a girl, Cecília Pereira's family made a habit of picnics at the National Museum. Formerly a palace for Portuguese and Brazilian royalty, the majestic museum-grounds were a reprieve from the poor Rio neighborhood where Ms. Pereira grew up, just 15 minutes away. "I always wanted to go," says Pereira, now a master's candidate studying botany.

Blue wave euphoria? Why it hasn't reached this corner of Baltimore Posted: 05 Sep 2018 01:38 PM PDT In April 2016, one year after the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody, church elder Clyde William "C.W." Harris climbed to the roof of his office building in West Baltimore and refused to come down. "I stayed on the roof for four nights and five days," Mr. Harris, pastor at Newborn Communities of Faith, says with a note of pride. This year, Harris may need to do more than hold a rooftop vigil to get his congregants to the polls.

A year later, Puerto Rico says ‘Come on down’ Posted: 05 Sep 2018 12:20 PM PDT A year ago a group of neighbors in the small Puerto Rican city of Humacao desperately signaled for help.

Boruboru: South Sudan’s newest spectator sport is one for the girls Posted: 05 Sep 2018 07:33 AM PDT Replace them with three barefoot girls on a sandy pitch on the outskirts of South Sudan's jumbled capital city. This is more like if dodgeball met gymnastics on the clay courts of the French Open, and then a couple of Major League Baseball pitchers showed up just to hang out. This is boruboru: South Sudan's most beloved playground game, and more recently, its newest spectator sport.

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