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Boston Calling reflects how the world looks through American eyes and explores the myriad and unexpected ways that the world influences the United States. It is produced by the Boston-based team responsible for the weekday US public radio news magazine, PRI's The World.

In the first edition, we bring you the story of how a Twitter hashtag backfired badly.

Also, the role of the US Peace Corps in the life and career of the late US Ambassador Chris Stevens and the little-known story of the many immigrants who fought in the American Civil War.

And what鈥檚 up with all those American muscle cars on the roads of Kosovo?

(Image: US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)