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It starts with love, this story.
And ends with it, too. There wasn't a cure of the young autistic boy. But there was a healing, which helped save his parents' marriage.
Somewhere in the middle, high up on the border of Mongolia and Siberia, love came into play with the Reindeer People and a shaman known as Ghoste.
That will be explained.

With his Homburg hats, his three-piece English-style suits and his lion-tail fly whisk, Hastings Kamuzu Banda was one of the oddest dictators in African history.

Turn off, tune out and unplug.
That's the advice from the International Energy Agency that is raising alarms about rising electricity consumption -- and resulting greenhouse-gas emissions -- from the global boom in home electronics.

Jack Louis Sporich was living an idyllic retirement, splitting his time between a luxury condo in Sedona, Ariz., and a sprawling home he was having built in a tourist mecca in Cambodia.

They left home early in the morning to get a seat at the front of the exhibition grounds for a campaign appearance by their political hero. They settled in on the rough mat floor, in their best bright polyester saris, prepared to wait for hours despite the 113-degree heat.
"I wanted to be sure I'd be able to see and hear her," Rajesh Devi said happily.

Cpl. Pascal Lavoie is sweating.

There are 12 yards that Kevin Ireland knows all too well. It's the length of his hallway on the 11th floor in the Metropark hotel in downtown Hong Kong, the building where he and some 305 others have been quarantined since another guest there was diagnosed with the H1N1 virus on Friday.

When bulldozers began clearing the forest for the biggest industrial project in the history of Madagascar, they left the felled trees on the ground for 48 hours to allow hundreds of traumatized lemurs to escape.
It didn't quite work. Eleven of the rare primates died from stress and lack of food, according to environmental experts working on the Canadian-led project.

The federal government is planning sweeping new climate-change regulations for the nation's electricity sector that will phase out traditional coal-fired power.

A hunt for land confiscated by the Nazis started in Minnesota with two students using high-tech geographic mapping.
Now it is an international property dispute involving cryptic maps, deeds and farmland taken decades ago.