Sea Change

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For the first time in decades, Washington has approved ferry service between the US and Cuba. We hear from one Cuban exile who’s now expecting nautical traffic jams in the Florida Straits. Also: Does an octopus have a soul? We explore that and other octopus-related questions. And the New York restaurateur Ratha Chaupoly tells us how he learned his culinary craft by buying and selling sea urchin. Plus, the Irish writer Ethel Rohan describes her first days in America. How a New York school is using football to help integrate immigrant kids into student life. And the White House plan to give pollinators their own protected corridor, stretching from Canada to Mexico. Image: A ferry leaves the Florida city of Key West on a trip to Cuba in October 1954. (Courtesy of the Monroe County Library Collection)