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The Welsh School and What Comes After
Ysgol Bro Hyddgen in Machynlleth teaches every subject in Welsh. A long-running study now follows its graduates into adulthood.
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Stories
Long-form reporting on the people, places, and events that don't make the wire feeds — rescues, returns, civic acts, found things.
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The River That Changed Its Mind
In the spring of 2024, the Yellow River near Bayan Nur shifted its channel by 2.4 kilometers in eleven days. A county surveyor named Bao Wenli was the first to map it.
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The Bakery That Reopened the Factory
In 2022, a cooperative of eleven bakers leased the shuttered Bonomi pasta factory in Cremona. By last winter, they were baking 1,400 loaves a day and employing fifty-two.
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Thirty Years of the Same Five Miles
Since 1996, Wendell Cobb has walked the same stretch of Oregon coastline at dawn. He keeps a list of what he has found.
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The Choir Outside the Hospital
Every Wednesday since November 2009, a choir of about forty people has sung outside three hospitals in Sheffield, England, in all weathers, for anyone listening from a window.
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One Phone Line for Forty Years
In 1984, the village of Salgueiro do Campo in central Portugal voted to share a single telephone. The vote held until last spring.
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The Night Pilot of the Bitterroots
At 68, Hollis Wren still flies search-and-rescue missions over Montana's Bitterroot Range after dark, when most pilots have gone home and most weather has turned.
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The Library That Bought a Stranger's Debt
In a town of nine thousand, the public library used its end-of-year surplus to retire $1.2 million in medical bills owed by people it had never met.