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Boston Calling: The Great Escape

The Great Escape

17/06/2017 GMT

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Could a massive refugee programme offer relief to besieged Syrians?

Sam Heller, an expert on Syria, thinks that the US should evacuate the country’s residents. 
 
Also: a physicist who always dreamed of working in the US says it’s no longer the ‘global centre of science’; we revisit Orlando, Florida, one year after the Pulse nightclub shooting; a grandmother from Queens, New York, shares a shocking personal secret; and an orchestra conductor turns the fence on the US-Mexico border into a musical instrument. 
 
(Image: Idleb is a city in north western Syria. Credit: Omar Haj Kadour/Getty Images)

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