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Adam Herbel, Silicon Valley’s “Dancing Cowboy,” teaches Country line dancing at various venues in the Bay Area. [VIDEO]
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Life in a year: Part 6
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Mona Gholam struggles to cope with the scars of the war in Iraq. (more…)

Haitham Jasim and his wife, Jamila Ghanm, arrived in San Jose from Iraq in July. This is their story. (more…)

Images of 2008 from the staff photographers of the San Jose Mercury News. (more…)

[VIDEO] Despite India’s explosive economic growth, extreme poverty is still a daily reality for millions.
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Homeowners describe the process of recovering from last June’s devastating Trabing Fire.
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The Foundation for Excellence, a Silicon Valley non-profit, provides scholarships to brilliant students who are among India’s vast poor. (more…)

Geneva Rucker-Kenerson never thought that in her lifetime she would see an African Amercian elected the nation’s president. (more…)

Trained at the Shenyang Peking Opera School, Madame Lifang Wang and her family continue the tradition in Silicon Valley. [VIDEO] (more…)

Doris Willette of San Francisco ready to represent the U.S. in fencing at Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
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Santa Cruz diver Ariel Rittenhouse hopes to make a splash at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
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Isolated deep within the Ventana Wilderness Area, Jack English, 89, returned to his life in Pine Valley. His Cabin was spared damage, but his land was devastated by the Big Sur-based Basin Complex Fire, Thursday July 24, 2008.. (more…)

Filipino WWII veterans are near the end of their 62-year-old fight for veterans benefits and military recognition that was promised to them during the war, but later denied by President Truman. [VIDEO]
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How to cross the street in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. [VIDEO] (more…)

Watch a live performance and interview with the San Francisco indie pop-surf band the Botticellis.
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