GENOA, Italy — I was at some friends’ home when Fabio Grosso freshened up a muggy...
Category - Perspective
My 2010 World Cup experience
DURBAN, South Africa – Though World Cup matches were playing in my home city, I never expected to...
ESPN forges a soccer fan in America
WEST HARTFORD, Connecticut, U.S.A. – Thank you, ESPN. You took someone (me) who would have watched...
Watching one of the final space shuttle launches
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, U.S.A. – TEN! NINE! EIGHT! SEVEN! SIX! FIVE! FOUR! THREE! TWO! ONE...
A genius comes home to Egypt
Excitement over appearance by Egyptian-born Nobel Prize winner Ahmed Zewail.
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Boston, Massachusetts, UNITED STATES — I never thought I’d make it to 20 years old. I don’t...
Living as a teenager on an army base
MONCHENGLADBACH-RHEINDAHLEN, Germany – Oh, so you live on an army base? Do you have to get up at...
A heavy heart for Haiti
MESQUITE, Texas, U.S.A. — Looking at the devastating destruction in Haiti, my heart grows...