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Just as the clothes we wear and the restaurants we visit follow trends, the illicit drugs we ingest cycle in and out of fashion. I ...

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With the return of the summer constellations rising around midnight, the Milky Way rises up from ringing the horizon and will arc slowly ...

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EPA urges Pennsylvania to move faster on water safety issues

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A newborn boy with a genetic heart condition; a father’s joy and dread

On Aug. 10, 2016, less than one month before my wife Kate was due to give birth to our second child, she and I received news that would change our lives forever.

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Can negative people learn to look on the bright side?

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