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    How A Man Born Into Poverty In Nepal Inspired Thousands Of Children To Finish School

    Education pioneer Surya Karki ’16 has been working to transform Nepal’s school system since he was a student at College of the Atlantic, opening his first school in the country in 2015, as he tells The Telegraph. Since that time, Karki and his charity, United World Schools Nepal, have launched 30 schools, with seven more on…

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    Finding Amelia Earhart’s plane seemed impossible. Then Came a startling clue

    Robert Ballard has found the Titanic and other famous shipwrecks. Now, Ballard’s crew, co-lead by Allison Fundis ’03, are trying to solve one of the 20th century’s greatest mysteries. Fundis is a rising explorer Ballard hopes will eventually take his place. “I feel like Leakey handing it off to Jane Goodall,” he says to the New York…