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June 19
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Tom Johnson for NJ Spotlight
With the summer budget break approaching, a coalition of environmental and other organizations is pressing the Legislature to overturn a veto of a bill (A-575) by Gov. Chris Christie that would ban New Jersey from accepting June 19
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Jennifer Peltz for NBC10
The mayors of Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles and 15 other cities are reviving a push against letting food stamps be used to buy soda and other sugary drinks.
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June 19
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Emma Lee for NewsWorks
Therapy dogs are often used to help hospital patients deal with the stress that comes with illness and injury. A new program at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania aims to bring the same kind of relief to June 18
Starbucks has a new way to wake up its customers: showing the calories in its drinks.
The Seattle-based coffee chain says it will start posting calorie counts on menu boards nationwide next week, ahead of a federal regulation -
Associated Press
June 18
Health officials in Philadelphia and Delaware are asking gay men -- and men who have sex with men -- to speak with their doctor and consider a vaccine against bacterial meningitis especially if they have partners in New York or -
Taunya English, @taunyaenglish
Got questions about the Affordable Care Act? WHYY/NewsWorks Health and Science Desk provides "The Short Answer."
Question: If I get my health insurance through work, will anything change in 2014? Answer: No — not for now, at least.
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The New Yorker's George Packer
June 19GUEST: GEORGE PACKER The New Yorker staff reporter GEORGE PACKER examines the economic and cultural health of the United States’ last 40 years through the stories of several, varied Americans. He writes about the cost of Freedom, of failing and
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The Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement
June 17Guests: Katherine Bagley, Isobel Arthen, Mindy Lubber Over the past year, the fossil fuel divestment movement has quickly and passionately spread across college throughout the U.S. Students are calling for institutions of higher learning to stop investing in fossil fuel
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