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Marissa Lorusso

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I was summer intern at The World, and a student at American University's School of International Service. I'm pursuing my Master's in International Communication, focusing on intercultural relations.Mostly, I like to learn about the interactions among culture, gender and language around the world. I also love hearing, telling  — and helping people tell! — great stories, which is what led me to fall in love with radio.Outside of school and work, I spend most of my time running, writing music and planning my next road trip.
hitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot, was destroyed in Philadelphia.
Science
Web to stricken robot: The world is better than Philadelphia
A health worker injects a woman with an Ebola vaccine during a trial in Liberia
Health
Experimental Ebola vaccine is ‘highly efficacious and safe’ — but late
The Korean Basketball League is attracting American players.
Sports
For these basketball players, what happens in Vegas (hopefully) makes it to Seoul
Contestants on Oxfam's "Female Food Heroes"
Development
Reality TV’s new stars are Tanzanian farmers
Donald Trump has some harsh words for El Chapo
Culture
Has Donald Trump become ‘the great Latino unifier?’
A group in Paris meets to forge friendships across racial lines
Culture
Talking — and not talking — about race and identity in France
President of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee
Sports
Japan looks to the future — and its past — for 2020 Olympics
Pier 14 in San Francisco, where a woman was killed last week.
Justice
Shooting in San Francisco raises questions about ‘sanctuary cities’
"Reykjavik raining sideways and trampolines are on the move" from the Reykjavík metropolitan police's Instagram
Lifestyle
Iceland issues flying trampoline warnings
A member loyal to the ISIS waves the ISIS flag in Raqqa
Conflict
The story of one young woman’s almost-recruitment from Washington to the ISIS Caliphate
Preserved human skulls are seen on display at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Kigali, Rwanda.
Justice
Rwandan intelligence chief arrested in London — on Spanish charges from 2008
A photo illustration shows a USB device being plugged into a laptop computer in Berlin July 31, 2014.
Conflict
White supremacy isn’t just a national problem — it’s global
Merrill Garbus of the band tUnE-yArDs
Music
Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs: ‘Play what you want to hear’
Rates of eating disorders for women in the IDF have skyrocketed in the past decade.
Health
The newest enemy of female soldiers in Israel? Eating disorders
Anna Rothschild in NOVA's Gross Science.
Science
The ‘slimy, smelly, creepy world’ of Gross Science
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
Global Politics
Twitter reacts: Despite being a man, Indian PM Modi manages to patronize a woman
Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair.
Lifestyle
‘I thought the photograph looked fantastic. I mean her legs looked so great.’
Henry Evans-Tenbrinke with supporters of his sit-in in Hamilton, Ontario.
Justice
One Canadian man’s fight to keep his mailbox