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A student from Miami who graduated as her high school valedictorian, was accepted to Dartmouth and with hopes of becoming a cardio-thoracic surgeon, very nearly lost her opportunity because her parents kept her in the country illegally when she was 4. She won a temporary reprieve, but she’s fighting for more for herself and others like her.

Two small towns, one in Oregon the other in Scotland, are considering becoming sister cities. They’re not exactly linked by trade, nor are they culturally significant. It’s really the towns’ names that have the two communities considering linking up.

If the word ‘awesome’ has lost its awesomeness, author Arthur Plotnik has a list of new superlatives to help you express yourself.

A controversial new study out of Yale concludes that people who speak languages without future verb tenses like Chinese are better at preparing for the future than people who use a future tense like in English, French, and Spanish for example.

The World’s Clark Boyd reports from Amsterdam on the Dutch group C-Mon and Kypski. One of the band’s videos has gotten attention of some computer scientists at the New York University.