The week's good news: February 1, 2018

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1. New Jersey teen becomes youngest person to row solo across the Atlantic

When he arrived on the Caribbean island of Antigua on Sunday, Oliver Crane celebrated two things: seeing his family and friends for the first time in 44 days, and becoming the youngest person to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The 19-year-old New Jersey resident broke the previous record set in 2010 by Katie Spotz, who was 22 at the time. He left the Canary Islands on Dec. 14, and told ABC News the hardest part was when he took the first stroke off the coast of Africa "knowing I had close to a million more strokes to go and 3,000 miles left. But I got through it, and I'm glad to have." Crane said he set out on this journey to raise money for ocean conservation and homelessness, and will now attend Princeton University to study political science.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.