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Baseball's 'Most Durable Bat Boy' Marks 55 Years On The Field

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Stan Bronson, 84, has been an honorary batboy for the University of Memphis Tigers since 1958. The university provides his food and medical care.

Credit Courtesy of the University of Memphis Athletics

Bronson is renowned for ending the seventh inning of every home game with a hat tip and a bow.

By editor

Originally published on Thu May 16, 2013 6:24 pm

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The University of Memphis baseball team plays its final home game of the season Tuesday. In addition to rooting for the players, Memphis fans will cheer for someone else: batboy Stan Bronson Jr.

3:56 pm

Tue May 14, 2013

How A Florida Medical School Cares For Communities In Need

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With community-based health care a central part of its curriculum, Florida International University's medical school turned an RV into a mobile health clinic so that students could treat families in neighborhoods where medical care is scare.

By Greg Allen

Originally published on Tue May 14, 2013 6:15 pm

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If it's a Monday, you can usually find Dr. David Brown parked next to a lake in Miami, spending the day inside a 36-foot-long RV. He's not on vacation.

Brown is chief of family medicine at Florida International University's medical school. The RV is the school's mobile health clinic.

3:27 pm

Tue May 14, 2013

For Palestinians, Google's Small Change Is A Big Deal

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Internet giant Google has recognized the Palestinians' upgraded U.N. status, placing the name "Palestine" on its search engine instead of "Palestinian Territories."

By editor

Originally published on Sun May 19, 2013 9:38 am

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The webpage Google.ps used to read "Google: Palestinian Territories." On May 1, the company quietly changed that regional search page to say "Google: Palestine."

Google didn't announce the name change, but it didn't have to. In a place where small gestures can carry great symbolism, Palestinians noticed right away.

"Everybody knows about it and they screenshot [and] post on Facebook: 'Yay Google, thank you,' " says Mohammad Kumboz, a 22-year-old graphic designer and computer programmer who lives in the Gaza Strip.

2:34 pm

Tue May 14, 2013

Who Hides Money Outside The Country?

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Belize, the home of our offshore company, Unbelizable.

By David Kestenbaum

Originally published on Tue May 14, 2013 6:15 pm

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Over the past decade, some 39,000 people have come forward voluntarily to tell the IRS about offshore money they haven't been paying taxes on. This group provides a small window into the world of people who are hiding money in offshore havens. (It's a world we've been trying to learn more about, partly by setting up an offshore company in Belize.)

2:28 pm

Tue May 14, 2013

Living On The Border, Driven — Literally — Underground

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Abimael Martinez, who was deported from Riverside, Calif., sits next to the hole he dug to live in beneath the banks of Tijuana's fetid river canal.

By editor

Originally published on Tue May 14, 2013 6:15 pm

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After living underground in the United States — figuratively speaking — some undocumented immigrants deported to the Mexican border city of Tijuana are living in holes. These migrants have dug bunkers along Tijuana's sewage canal to protect themselves from police who routinely burn down their makeshift homes.

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