In 1963 Gordon Cooper's automatic controls died in orbit, so he flew Faith 7 home by hand and landed near the carrier. But not every system had failed.
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Gina Martin was upskirted at a London music festival and told by police it wasn't a crime. With no lawyer, no funding, and no political connections, she spent eighteen months changing the law for all of England and Wales.
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In 1972 Bakelite heiress Barbara Daly Baekeland was stabbed to death by her son Antony in London. The family, the illness and the release that ended in tragedy.
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Rina Gonoi joined Japan's Self-Defence Forces after watching them rescue her town in 2011. When her own colleagues assaulted her and two investigations were dropped, she posted her story on YouTube — and forced the military into a public apology and a service-wide reckoning.
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Malawi's Senior Chief Theresa Kachindamoto annulled more than 3,500 child marriages and sent the girls back to school. How she did it, and what she left behind.
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A viral post on life after birth is mostly right. Here is what the science says about the healing wound, the shrinking uterus, broken sleep and matrescence.
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