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Maverick, a bar in Mexico, sits empty amid the pandemic. Missing its patrons, it launched a website recreating different sounds from the bar experience. The idea ended up touching many around the world. Courtesy of René Cárdenas hide caption
This Bar Missed Its Patrons. Its Idea To Reach Them Touched Others Around The World
The Olympic Torch Began Its Trip Around Japan Today Starting In Fukushima
A Bar In Mexico Realized What They've Been Missing Amid The Pandemic
Ordinary items such as bicycles or hair extensions are gaining symbolic significance as we use them to project to a time when we can finally use them with others or show them off. Kaz Fantone for NPR hide caption
A Bicycle. A Trip. Or Just Pants: The Things We Buy When Pining For Normal Times
A "Help Wanted" sign is posted in front of a business on Feb. 4 in Miami. Although millions are unemployed, some businesses that require being on-site are struggling to find workers. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Millions Are Out Of A Job. Yet Some Employers Wonder: Why Can't I Find Workers?
Occupy Wall Street participants march down Fifth Avenue in New York on May 1, 2012. Lingering anger over the 2008 global financial crisis has fueled several populist movements, including most recently, the battle waged by amateur investors coordinating in Reddit against hedge funds. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
'The Game Is Rigged': How Fury Over The Great Recession Fueled The Reddit Trade
How The Financial Crisis Of 2008 Appeared In The GameStop Trading Frenzy
People attend a rally in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Saint Petersburg on Saturday. Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Justin Thomas reacts on the 18th green during the third round of the Sentry Tournament Of Champions at the Kapalua Plantation Course on Saturday in Kapalua, Hawaii. Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images hide caption
In an emotional video posted Sunday, former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, seen here in 2018, compared Wednesday's assault on the U.S. Capitol to Kristallnacht — or the Night of Broken Glass — an infamous night in 1938 when Nazi sympathizers stormed through Jewish neighborhoods in Germany. Michael Kovac/Getty Images for J/P HRO Gala hide caption
Released students from the Government Science Secondary school in Kankara, in Nigeria's northwestern Katsina State, are led into the Government House upon their release on Friday. Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Physicians and nurses wear personal protective equipment while they attend to a COVID-19 patient in the ICU at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, Calif. on December 18, 2020. APU GOMES/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The rocket, pictured on Nov. 17, will launch China's Chang'e-5 lunar probe on Tuesday. Here it is being transported to the launching area at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in southern China's Hainan province. Stringer/AFP via Getty Images hide caption