It may have been a little Norwegian girl who first ignited Stephanie Swanson's curiosity about a world well beyond Grand Forks. Nora Holmen, whose father had come to UND to teach, joined Swanson's ...

Donna Burke has been the voice of Japan's bullet train for 20 years now. ... One of the visa requirements was that you have a university degree. ... I saw an ad for a teaching job in Tokyo.