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As the number of cycling kids plummets, school programs step in
The childhood joy of two-wheeled neighborhood discovery is threatened by screen time and safety concerns. On a warm afternoon at G ...
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The Americans with Disabilities Act turns 25, still faces daunting challenges
The ADA is regularly touted as a spectacularly successful piece of legislation, but the employment picture for the disabled is a frontier ...
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Text therapy could breakdown socioeconomic boundaries…but what about state laws?
A new web-based venture hopes to democratize access to therapy. The potential downside: prison time. In the therapy world, technol ...
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Weird science jobs: grocer of the seas
In February, a British engineer announced he had found the strongest natural material on Earth, the teeth of a type of sea snail called t ...
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A job that’s one big balancing act
Do you ever feel you’ve been juggling too many things, trying to balance too much stuff at work? Tray Duffy experience ...
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Two years ago, doctors declared obesity a disease, but critics say, “Don’t pathologize my size!” Two years after the ...
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Could swallowable cameras replace the colonoscopy?
For reasons that are never made completely clear, gastroenterologist Mitchell Conn keeps a ha ...
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The science of dog fur and why cutting is not cool
When the stifling heat and sweaty humidity of summer comes crushing down on you, imagine putting on a fur coat. It’s hard to ...
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A&P’s second bankruptcy just the latest in market shakeup
The latest supermarket shakeup is under way for Philadelphia-area shoppers. NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller turned for the detai ...
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Why do some patients cry after anesthesia?
This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...
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Listen 5:45Reporter’s Roundtable: Christie needs New Hampshire, Wolf just needs Pennsylvania
On today’s Reporter’s Roundtable, NewsWorks Tonight Host Dave Heller considers New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s per ...
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Art of Life — Produced by Karen Smyles The Bearded Ladies is an experimental cabaret group devoted to exploiting all the possi ...
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Is your surgeon listening to Metallica? Possibly.
From Chopin to Danzig, operating rooms can be a cacophony of melodies with up to 70 percent of surgeons listen to music while operating.< ...
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Dramatic photos of Pluto provide science fodder for years to come
New Horizons spacecraft is beaming back images of the solar system’s most distant planet, and scientists think they will answer man ...
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Coordinated breathing may protect the heart during cancer treatment
The risk for heart trouble after radiation therapy is small, but thousands of breast-cancer patients are exposed. Radiation therap ...
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