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- The Listening Project follows four Americans as they travel the world in order to listen to people in foreign countries and hear what they think of the United States. They visit the countries of Canada, China, India, Great Britain, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Tanzania, France, Brazil, South Africa, Afghanistan, Russia, and Palestine.
- American astronomers from METI, which deals with Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, invent a universal language for communicating with aliens. Their first message has already been sent. How long will we have to wait for an answer?
- On April 15, 1980, exactly 40 years ago, the Mariel Exodus began, one of the largest mass escapes in Cuban history. 125 thousand Cubans said goodbye to the socialist revolution and in crowded boats, piloted or sent by exiled compatriots, arrived in the United States, under the presidency of Jimmy Carter, to restart their lives in "land of freedom", a phrase that is still often repeated proudly the protagonists of that epic and thousands of others who have continued to flee from Caribbean communism in the following 4 decades. The germ of that gigantic social stampede began a few days earlier, when a small group of civilians diverted the route of a public bus (a bus, as they say in Cuba) and entered the Embassy of Peru with the aim of obtaining political asylum. In this operation, a security guard was injured in the crossfire with his own colleagues and died on the way to the hospital. Taking the accident as a pretext, Fidel Castro tried to intimidate the Embassy of Peru with the withdrawal of protection if they did not hand over those who entered the premises. Peruvian diplomats did not give in to the threats and protected the refugees. Hence, the dictator, as revenge, publicly stated that anyone who wanted to take refuge in the Embassy could do so without facing reprisals. Castro never imagined what that decision would unleash in just hours. The response of the Cuban people disgusted the president even more and, given the unusual rise of the phenomenon, he authorized Cuban exiles to dock at the Port of Mariel to pick up relatives who wished to leave the country. The Mariel exodus mobilized and kept a good part of the country in suspense for long months. It culminated on October 31, 1980 when Castro's military troops ordered the last 150 ships still docked at the Port of Mariel to return to the United States without waiting for their relatives to board. Thousands saw in that moment the hope of leaving communism behind. But for those 125,000 who landed in Key West, according to the protagonists of the episodes of "Mariel 40 years", having managed to escape Castroism and settle in the United States was the greatest triumph they could imagine.
- Biography of Sattareh Farmanfarmaian, author of "Daughter of Persia", mother of social work in Iran and one of the pioneer women listed by Harvard University.