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Cardinal Peter Turkson is Vatican point man on climate change
The Vatican continues to draw attention to problems associated with climate change. Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana helped t ...
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ListenWhat’s Christie’s reward for trumpeting Trump?
Four days out from the Super Tuesday presidential primary elections, Republican front-runner Donald Trump looks to lock in his advantage ...
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ListenFirst female epic poet, forgotten voice of the Renaissance and Galileo’s pen pal
Four hundred years ago today, the Catholic Church tried to silence Galileo, ending a period of thriving scientific and literary deba ...
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What’s the right kind of rehabilitation, after addiction?
The concept of “rehab” tends to make us think of a place where drug addicts go away for weeks or months at a time to recover. ...
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Produced by Michael O’Reilly The Print Center of Philadelphia is celebr ...
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The sport and spin of presidential politicking
Pennsylvania and Delaware voters go to the polls April 26. Garden State residents wait until June 7 to weigh in on the presidentia ...
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ListenOver time, watching the perception of addiction treatment change
With the country in the throes of a heroin epidemic, politicians on both sides are talking about the importance of addiction treatment, a ...
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ListenMore police departments offering help, not jail, to addicts
Last year, the police chief of Gloucester, Massachusetts, made an unusual offer on his department’s Facebook page. Heroin addicts w ...
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ListenAddiction, compassion, race: Looking back at the crack epidemic
Why was the response to crack far harsher than today’s outreach to heroin users? During the latter part of the 1980s, Robert Stu ...
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ListenIn Philadelphia, profiling life after overdose and Narcan
Holly Platts could have easily joined the more t ...
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ListenGreensky: Not your daddy’s bluegrass
The sky was green and the grass was blue in Kalamazoo in the year 2000. That’s when David Bruzza, Paul Hoffman and Michael Bont put ...
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ListenThe story behind the new NASA space travel posters
For one designer, creating these posters was like ‘coming full circle’ for his family. NASA has been quite the p ...
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ListenProduced by Monica Rogozinski Restaurant Design is a big component of a new restaurant. As part of ...
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Physician, heal thyself? Why more young doctors are depressed
It’s late afternoon at a busy medical clinic in Baltimore. Dr. John Allen sits at a small desk by the window. Pale yellow sunlight ...
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ListenScientists call for the removal of race in genetics research
Should race be used as a variable in genetics research? A new paper ...
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