How Often Do Police Use Tasers on Teens? Experts Want More Data. By Rod McCullom The photographs are graphic and disturbing: 16-year-old Jahmel Leach sits in a hospital bed, his face swollen, a deep, bloody laceration stretching across his right cheek. Taken last June, the pictures show the Bronx teenager shortly after he was arrested […]
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‘Luckiest Man Alive’: Why 9/11 First Responders’ Outlooks May Improve Even as Physical Health Fails
2021-09-11 ‘Luckiest Man Alive’: Why 9/11 First Responders’ Outlooks May Improve Even as Physical Health Fails Michael McAuliff Ray Pfeifer and Luis Alvarez’s names are on the federal 9/11 legislation that establishes benefits for first responders. Both men fought to make Congress pass it while they were dying of cancer — and they had another […]
How Rape Affects Memory, and Why Police Need to Know About That Brain Science
2021-09-03 How Rape Affects Memory, and Why Police Need to Know About That Brain Science Sammy Caiola, Capital Public Radio Annie Walker woke up one morning in 2019 with little recollection of the night before. She had bruises on her arms, legs, wrist and lower abdomen. “But I literally had no idea what had […]
What will history say about Covid? Museums scurry to collect — and prepare to remember.
2021-09-02 What will history say about Covid? Museums scurry to collect — and prepare to remember. A worn pair of nurse’s shoes. That coronavirus model Anthony Fauci used in public briefings. Oral histories, iconic photos and social media posts. All of us are curators now, and what we preserve — as well as what we […]
Syd Barret
Syd Barret By: Harry Rackers In August 2006 a sixty year old, bald, stocky bachelor with a face at once stern and sensitive died of diabetes. He was living on his own in his home-town: the genteel city of Cambridge, England, world widely known for its university, which, in the UK, is rivalled only […]
Need Amid Plenty: Richest US Counties Are Overwhelmed by Surge in Child Hunger
2021-08-21 Need Amid Plenty: Richest US Counties Are Overwhelmed by Surge in Child Hunger Laura Ungar Alexandra Sierra carried boxes of food to her kitchen counter, where her 7-year-old daughter, Rachell, stirred a pitcher of lemonade. “Oh, my God, it smells so good!” Sierra, 39, said of the bounty she’d just picked up at […]
Dogsled Racer Blazes Trail for Visually Impaired Readers and Cyclists
Dogsled Racer Blazes Trail for Visually Impaired Readers and Cyclists Rachael Scdoris, a 28-year-old outdoors enthusiast, has been a competitive dogsled racer for well over a decade. Thanks to the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), a division of the Library of Congress, she’s been an avid reader for the past […]
A Health Care Giant Sold Off Dozens of Hospitals — But Continued Suing Patients
2021-08-04 A Health Care Giant Sold Off Dozens of Hospitals — But Continued Suing Patients Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio Tennova Healthcare-Lebanon doesn’t exist anymore as a hospital. But it still sued Hope Cantwell. A knock came on the door of Cantwell’s Nashville, Tennessee, apartment early this year. She said she hadn’t been vaccinated against […]
Helping Service Members and Spouses Land Post-Military Careers
Helping Service Members and Spouses Land Post-Military Careers (StatePoint) Navigating the job market is tricky for any job seeker. For transitioning U.S. service members and military spouses, finding one’s professional footing can be even more challenging. From frequent relocations and childcare considerations to bias on the part of potential employers, transitioning service members and military […]
How the Most Common Form of Dwarfism Impacts Families
How the Most Common Form of Dwarfism Impacts Families (StatePoint) Though it is the most common form of dwarfism, occurring in one out of every 25,000 births, achondroplasia is often misunderstood as a condition only affecting one’s height. Beyond disproportionate short stature, achondroplasia is associated with a number of serious health complications, sometimes resulting in […]