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This Week's Best Clown Headlines from around the worldClowns Without Borders plan to bring laughter back to Haiti - Aid agencies like the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders have already poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the relief effort in Haiti. Those dollars from overseas, translate into medical supplies, clothes, and water on the ground, but what about laughter?
That's the main export of crisis response group Clowns Without Borders USA, an organization dedicated to relieving the suffering in conflict zones and refugee camps. KALW's Colin Anderson sat down with the founder of the organization, Moshe Cohen and regular volunteer, Adrian Mejia. Clowns in Makeup - On Friday the Shrine Clowns of Texas gathered at the Crowne Plaza on I-35 to hold a makeup competition. The clowns gather once a year to compete against each other and learn from one another. Lessons in laughter - Each stroke of white makeup transforms a face. Rather than conceal, it reveals. The arch of a painted eyebrow, the exaggerated smile or frown, say more than a monologue. And the metamorphosis isn't limited to the actor; it's in the audience's mind as well. Enter Eli Simon's world, where clowning is an art. Magician works to make accidents disappear - With a mixture of humor, good advice and, yes, magic, Davis met with about 500 first-graders from Aiken Elementary School and Warrenville, Oakwood-Windsor, East Aiken and Merriwether elementary schools earlier this week. His program, "Making Accidents Disappear," is intended to reinforce electrical safety and energy conservation. No tears for this clown - Everyone's life has a story. In "Lives," we tell some of the stories about North Shore people who have died recently. "Lives" runs Mondays in The Salem News. Cirque du Soleil slips up - After opening to rotten reviews in Chicago, Cirque de Soleil’s Banana Shpeel is scrambling to avoid a similar slip up in the Big Apple. Rockaway man knows clowning around is good medicine - Pablo's face lights up when Dr. Willie enters his room at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston.
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Wearing red fuzzy pajamas dotted with monkeys, the 5-year-old grins widely, his round cheeks flush with excitement. Not the ordinary reaction of a critically ill child when his doctor appears. But then, this is no ordinary doctor. Director enjoys one-man clown show - Daniele Finzi Pasca knows large scale. The Swiss director, author, actor and clown directed the closing ceremonies for the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy and he directed the opera L'Amour de Loin for the English National Opera in London.
Wiggles the Clown teaches children safety - Before she took them for a ride in an imaginary car made of four chairs and a zebra-print-covered steering wheel, Wiggles the Clown reminded a group of kindergarten students to buckle up and use a child booster seat. Dog act is real circus - IMAGINE a life in which you did not have a fixed place of residence. You pack up your family, work a few nights a week and travel the country.
You have no fixed address, no responsibilities like a mortgage or showing up to work each day at 8.30am. Hospital clowns conference examines how humour heals - We've all heard that laughter is the best medicine, and the goal of a week-long symposium in Toronto is to show how a healthy dose of humour can heal.
Some 1,000 people are expected to attend the workshops and performances to learn how therapeutic clowns bring smiles to sad faces and cheer those who are ill. Circus clown puts biggest foot forward for sick kids - Laughing Leo, whose real name is Leo Acton, has been clowning around all over the United States and Canada for more than a dozen years.
Leo and ringmaster Justin Loomis from Circus Gatti visited Hendrick Children’s Hospital on Friday, bringing laughter to children who have not had much to laugh about lately. Some of the children are in the hospital facing serious illnesses. 'Circus Day' was once a major attraction in Greenville - The elephants are gone now. The clowns have washed away their makeup, and the trapeze artists have packed up their spangles and moved on. The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus has folded its (figurative) Greenville tent for another year.
It will return, as it has — mostly — for nearly 150 years. 
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