“Adults are divided about giving children new drugs for weight loss. At 13, Maggie Ervie decided to take them.”
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The Whale Who Went AWOL
“Hvaldimir escaped captivity and became a global celebrity. Now, no one can agree about what to do with him.”
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A Second Life for My Beloved Dog
“A simple iPhone feature unexpectedly changed how I grieved.”
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A Maui Love Story
“When 18-year-olds Lanz Aguinaldo and Isabella Lynch’s hometown went up in flames, they turned toward each other to survive.”
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The Fearlessness of Kanji
“How a simple rice dish became a Tamil symbol of resistance in Sri Lanka.”
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Love in the Time of Sickle Cell Disease
“What’s the cost of rolling the genetic dice?”
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An English Couple, a Ukrainian Surrogate and a Baby: the Extraordinary Story of How War United Two Unlikely Families
“Anastasia was living in Zaporizhzhia and was pregnant with Dorothy and Charlie’s baby. Then Russia invaded and she knew she had to escape to save the child.”
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What Are Farm Animals Thinking?
“New research is revealing surprising complexity in the minds of goats, pigs, and other livestock.”
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A Tale of Two Kebabs
“The galouti kebab from a cool new NYC restaurant could never measure up to the one I ate in my father’s hometown. But maybe that’s not the point.”