Ukraine held memorial services on Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of theChernobyl nuclear disaster which permanently poisoned swathes of eastern Europe and highlighted the shortcomings of the secretive Soviet system.
Some people found life away from home so unbearable they decided to return, even when home was the site of the world\’s worst nuclear disaster.
I was alone in a small town in central Cuba, and I had lost the only person I knew. The town was Santo Domingo, and it had taken a full morning of driving to get there. It’s a sleepy, slow-moving place, where American cars from the 1950s share the road with horse-drawn carts — and many of those carts act as taxis.
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