Claressa Shields is one of the highest ranked fighters in the world. At the age of 17 she became the first American to win gold in Olympic Women's Boxing. To date, she has more than fifty victories and only one loss. So what's it like to be one of the toughest teen fighters in the world? Charles Monroe-Kane called Claressa to find out.
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Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, and his wife have adopted two baby girls from China. Simon tells Anne Strainchamps why he and his wife are such fans of adoption.
Tariq Ramadan has been called the Muslim Martin Luther King. The Swiss philosopher travels widely trying to build bridges between European Muslims and conservative clerics...
Signe Pike chucked her job at a NY publishing house to looking for fairies in Mexico and the British Isles.
It’s too bad trees can’t talk to us, but storytellers can and Wayne Pauly has a good story about a young woman, a young man, and a tree.
Why does dancing - or just watching other people dance - feel so good? Correspondent Frank Browning checks in with dancers and neuroscientists.
Rosalind Wiseman and Rachael Simmons say that girls’ popularity with other girls is influenced by the politics of the social pecking order and that the effects of being ostracized can be devastating.
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