The Paired Stories, Second Series

#1 gambling trouble
a: Gabriela Byrne — an Australian woman who almost let gambling machines ruin her life
b: Clint van Loggenberg — a South African man who accused a casino of cheating him

#2 slavery today
a: Francis Bok — a Sudanese man who was captured by raiders as a child and enslaved for ten years
b: Michael Lee — an American man who went to jail after being convicted of enslaving agricultural workers

#3 extreme adventures
a: Eric Weihenmayer — the first blind person to climb the world's highest mountain
b: Kirk Jones — the first person to go over Niagara Falls intentionally without protection and survive

#4 defending forests
a: Wangari Maathai — a Kenyan woman who has devoted her life to fighting deforestation by planting trees
b: Felipe Arreaga — a Mexican peasant who has spent his life trying to protect his forests from big business

#5 birth injuries
a: Melissa Crawford — a Canadian woman whose brain was injured at birth and cannot care for herself
b: Richard Coman — an Englishman who behaves like a young child because of a pre-birth injury

#6 old men
a: Fauja Singh — a Sikh, living in England who is the world's top over-ninety marathoner
b: Giorgio Angelozzi — an Italian man in his seventies who has been adopted as a grandfather

#7 dog attacks
a: Bradley Fowler — a nine-year-old American boy who was bitten by a huge dog in a Sunday parade
b: Darlene Wagner — a Canadian woman whose ear was torn off by dogs while she was delivering mail

#8 false accusations
a: Eric Nordmark — a man who went to jail in California because young girls told lies about him
b: Sally Clark — an English woman who was wrongly convicted of killing her two sons

#9 online enterprise
a: Jonathan Lebed — an American teenager who made a lot of money trading stocks on the Internet
b: Marcus Arnold — an American teenager who became a successful online 'lawyer'

#10 whistle blowers
a: Satyendra Dubey — an Indian engineer who was murdered after reporting corruption in a highway project
b: Katharine Gun — an English woman who was arrested and put on trial after revealing an official secret