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csmonitor.com | Peter Grier |Cameron Pugh |Jacob Posner |Melanie Freeman
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csmonitor.com | Melanie Freeman |Sarah Matusek
At a distance, the snowy Rocky Mountains line the horizon like lace. Otherwise, it’s hard to tell this is Colorado, given the tigers, lions, leopards, and other foreign carnivores. This isn’t a zoo, and don’t let the fencing fool you. This is The Wild Animal Sanctuary, where more than 450 animals brought to Colorado’s eastern plains get a second chance to roam. The sanctuary spans over 1,200 acres and rehabilitates captive exotic and endangered animals.
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csmonitor.com | Troy Sambajon |Melanie Freeman
On a recent Thursday, Abe Marciniec unloads two dozen pallets of ice cream – enough to fill 31 refrigerators – into a machine that transforms it into fuel. Today’s flavor is room-temperature rocky road, but this facility handles all kinds of food waste from supermarkets, distribution centers, universities, and even residential drop-offs.
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csmonitor.com | Jackie Valley |Melanie Freeman
On a mid-February morning, Nicole Moore rolls up to a rented storage unit. The closet-sized room serves as a go-between, its contents connecting her family’s past and present lives. Her grandmother’s china? A treasured keepsake, now broken and tinted black. Several donated bicycles? Generosity in the aftermath of a disaster. Burned film canisters and a large scroll of paper? Items representing their semipaused professional lives.
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csmonitor.com | Melanie Freeman |Stephanie Hanes
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1 month ago | 
csmonitor.com | Melanie Freeman |Stephanie Hanes
Friday evenings are hopping at the St. Petersburg Shuffleboard Club, the world’s oldest and biggest institution dedicated to the game. Those nights are open to the general public, so local children, retirees, and college students join club members on the 76 green courts, where the rules of Florida shuffleboard were codified.
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1 month ago | 
csmonitor.com | Stephanie Hanes |Melanie Freeman
It was a dolphin that made Nicole Killian think differently about hurricane recovery. She had been preoccupied before she heard about it, she remembers, because that’s what happens during disasters. First, you worry about safety and make sure that your neighbors and family are OK. Then you start thinking about repairs and bills and the lack of flood insurance, about the need to clean mold and the dumpsters required for soggy carpets, about when the tourists might come back so that people can work.
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csmonitor.com | Sara Miller Llana |Melanie Freeman
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csmonitor.com | Sara Miller Llana |Melanie Freeman
It happens twice a day, every day, and has for thousands of years. But watching the world’s highest tides arrive and recede in the Bay of Fundy never gets old. At the head, the tide can rise about as tall as a four-story building.
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1 month ago | 
csmonitor.com | Ali Martin |Melanie Freeman
Porfiria Guerrero is getting ready for the lunch rush, stacking lunch boxes alongside other volunteers inside the Pasadena Community Job Center. The large, open room is bustling, and tables are set up in an L formation in the back for a lunch station, where a small fleet of women pauses after setting up.
