MORNING READ Conversation Starters

An 82-year-old retired professor in California found a new calling — offering free driving lessons to women from Afghanistan. His waiting list is 50 deep, and he sometimes teaches five back-to-back classes, some up to two hours long.

“Our life changed completely,” one student said after she and her sister passed their road tests.

The Australia Letter: The country devotes substantial time and resources to managing feral cats. Domestic ones are a trickier issue.

Conversation Starters

Perilous pet: Authorities seized a blind alligator from a New York man who had kept it for 34 years and had allowed people to be in the pool with it.
Beware: A potentially hazardous cat may be wandering around Fukuyama, Japan. (It fell into a chemical tank.)
Discover: A treasure hunter found a Viking sword in an English waterway. It is probably more than 1,000 years old.

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