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Philadelphia ‘learning how to be a growth city’
Saying we’re past the time when we can rely on a rising tide to lift all boats, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney is prioritizing an in ...
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ListenAuthor says touch is about hand, heart and mind
Why does it feel good when your sweetheart’s hand brushes your arm? “If you were to follow the touch sensation i ...
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ListenWhen doctors become detectives in situations of uncertainty
What do horses and zebras have to do with making patient care decisions? In the practice of medicine, one of the greatest ch ...
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ListenCardinal 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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