Marrying your kidney donor, and more

Marrying your kidney donor

An Indiana man has married the woman who donated a kidney to him and saved his life. Kyle Froelich of Danville, Ind., had been diagnosed with a fatal kidney disease and given a year to live when he met Chelsea Clair in 2009. The couple hit it off, and within hours Clair had pledged to give Froelich a kidney. Against all odds, she turned out to be a perfect match—and three years later, the couple have wed. Clair joked that she had little choice. “He’s carrying around my kidney,” she said. “I have to make sure he takes care of that.”

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Giant mirrors will this year bring winter sunshine for the first time to a Norwegian town nestled deep in a valley. Rjukan, around 100 miles west of Oslo, is usually shrouded in the shadow of surrounding hills from September through March. But this year, the town installed three mirrors known as heliostats on an overlooking ridge, to reflect beams of sunlight into the town’s center. “It is really special to stand in the light down on the square,” said Steinar Bergsland, the town’s mayor. “This is for the pale little children of Rjukan.”

Special-needs student scores a touchdown

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