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Back to SearchU.S.-Iran Ceasefire Tested as Tensions Rise in Persian Gulf
Tensions remain high in the Persian Gulf as the U.S. and Iran exchanged fire late last week, calling into question whether an already fragile ceasefi…
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Mac Barnett on How Kids Can Teach Us to Be Better Readers
Mac Barnett is a bestselling children’s book author and, since last year, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. He has a new small …
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How Did You Find Your Life’s Work?
How can we find and start our life’s work? That’s the question Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jodi Kantor tried to answer for Columbia University’s …
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Tracy Clark-Flory’s “My Mother’s Daughter” Tells the Story of Finding Her Long-Lost Sister
When she was 16, journalist Tracy Clark-Flory found out that she had a long-lost sister. Her mother shared that as a teenager, she had given up a chi…
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We're Living Online. Our Bodies Are Paying the Price
We’re spending too much time sitting behind screens. First we’re at our desks for eight, maybe ten hours. Then, all too often, we get home and plop o…
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Low-Income Adults with Disabilities Stand to Lose SSI Benefits Under Proposed Trump Administration Rule
A proposed rule change for obtaining Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits could reduce or eliminate income for some 400,000 adults with Down s…
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Could a ‘Plastic Detox’ Help With Health and Fertility?
The new Netflix documentary “The Plastic Detox” follows six couples struggling with unexplained infertility, asking them to cut plastic from their li…
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What Did Mapping The Genome Get Us?
Pioneering geneticist J. Craig Venter, who revolutionized biology with his role in sequencing the human genome, died last week in San Diego. In this …
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When Will Alternative Meats Go Mainstream?
Humans eat more than 550 metric tons of meat and seafood a year — a number that’s steadily climbing, and expected to do so until at least 2050. At th…
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Mary Cain Was A Running Prodigy, Until Abuse Derailed Her Career
As a teenager Mary Cain was a running phenom. At 17, she ran the 800 in under two minutes, and broke numerous national high school records. She went …
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