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\r\n \u2018Bend a tree while it is young\u2019 <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Burcu, 26, on her background, expectations and what it means to shape your own life.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n The drawer analysis: what our storage spaces reveal about us <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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From odds and ends to keepsakes: a tongue-in-cheek look at what we stash away \u2013 and why.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n The neighbour nobody knew <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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A stranger\u2019s bicycle in the cellar, a faded letterbox \u2013 and between them the life of a man who is suddenly gone. Who was he?<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Into the bushes <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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From city parks to cemetery toilets: how public places became refuges for gay men \u2013 and why cruising still exists today.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Unexploded bombs beneath the city: the dangerous job of bomb disposal <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Painstaking precision with deadly risk: a look at a profession in which every move has to be exactly right.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n \u2018The wolf is a problem that can be solved\u2019 <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Protect or shoot? How farmers and conservationists are struggling over the right way to deal with the returning predator.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Irmela Mensah-Schramm: fighting Nazi slogans with a scraper and a heart <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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For decades one woman has been scraping messages of hate out of public spaces \u2013 she has removed more than 140,000 of them. The attacks go on.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Life in Transnistria: a state without recognition <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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What is it like to live in a place that doesn\u2019t even exist on most maps? Young people tell their stories.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n From outlaw to spiritual healer <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Alexander Golandsky was a criminal biker and cocaine dealer. Then he changed his life radically.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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\r\n Lost place in the Harz: the abandoned Harzgerode sanatorium <\/h3>\r\n\r\n
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Where children were once treated for tuberculosis, silence now reigns \u2013 a walk through crumbling walls.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Some stories are not out in the open.<\/strong> You have to follow their traces. That is exactly what the stories in our sixth focus topic do.<\/p>\n

They search for a neighbour nobody knew and for unexploded bombs beneath the city. They accompany Irmela Mensah-Schramm, who has been removing far-right slogans from walls since 1986, and travel to Transnistria, a state that hardly anyone recognises.<\/p>\n

Drawers leave traces, too: an analysis shows what the way we store things reveals about us. And in the Harz mountains, the path leads to an abandoned sanatorium.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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