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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 — The Russell family likes comfort: their three-bedroom, three-bathroom suburban home in Birmingham, Ala.; a packed refrigerator with an automatic ice machine; central air conditioning, and, when mom doesn’t feel like cooking, fast food restaurants. So why would they trade all these middle-class amenities for a sweltering mud hut in Lungu, Ghana, with no electricity, no plumbing, and no golden arches for thousands of miles? “It just sounded like it would be a blast,” said Lynne Russell, who with husband Scott and their two children signed up for one of the cross-cultural adventures on the National Geographic Channel’s “Worlds Apart.” The 13-episode series premieres 8 p.m. ET Monday. Each week, one American family spends 10 days with a local household in a remote Third World village, participating in their customs, rituals and livelihoods...
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