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March 7, 2019
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Jeopardy’s Alex Trebek: What Stage IV Pancreatic Cancer May Mean For Him
March 6, 2019
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As the longtime host of the television game show Jeopardy!, Alex Trebek has been used to providing answers to contestants. Unfortunately, the 78-year-old Trebek has a diagnosis that still has many, many more questions than answers.
This is a very, very tough diagnosis. According to Cancer.net, each year in the United States, approximately 55,000 adults will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and approximately 44,000 will die from the disease. That makes it the fourth leading cause of cancer mortality, accounting for 7% of all cancer deaths. According to the American Cancer Society, data from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) show that five years after diagnosis only 9% of patients remain alive.
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‘Jeopardy!’ host Alex Trebek speaks as he is inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Broadcasting Hall of Fame on April 9, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)Getty
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Banff National Park Canada
March 6, 2019
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Banff National Park (French: Parc national Banff) is Canada’s oldest national park and was established in 1885. Located in the Rocky Mountains, 110–180 kilometers (68–112 mi) west of Calgary in the province of Alberta, Banff encompasses 6,641 square kilometers (2,564 sq mi) of mountainous terrain, with numerous glaciers and ice fields, dense coniferous forest, and alpine landscapes.
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Sedated babies, code words: Inside Europe’s people-smuggling networks
March 6, 2019
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Zubair Nazeri’s traveling companion crushed a pill in her hands, dissolved it in water and fed it to her 2-year-old daughter.
The sedative made the baby sleep for more than a day, Nazeri recalled. It was a requirement of the smugglers who were trying to guide the group from Serbia across the border with Croatia and then into Slovenia, opening up the possibility of traveling without passport checks within 26 countries on the European mainland.
More than 90 percent of undocumented immigrants who enter the European Union illegally use people smugglers at one stage of their journey, according to the law enforcement agency Europol.
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Mountain of Tongues
March 6, 2019
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What the ancients knew about the fortress of mountains between the Black and Caspian Seas was that it was home to many peoples and impossible to reach. Herodotus heard from the Persians that “many and all manner of nations dwell in the Caucasus,” most of whom he claimed lived on wild shrubs. Five centuries later, the geographer Strabo attempted to catalogue some of these curious tribes, among them a mounted army of women warriors called the Amazons, and Pliny the Elder noted that the Romans had needed 130 interpreters to speak the linguae francae in Dioscurias, the city on the Black Sea coast to which upland clans descended to do business.
But the first person to penetrate the Caucasus and report back in reliable detail on its bewildering diversity was a tenth-century Arab historian and geographer named Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Hussain al-Mas’udi. He also coined its most enduring nickname: Jabal al-Alsun, or the Mountain of Tongues.
In the Caucasus, al-Mas’udi found “seventy-two nations, and every nation has its own king and language which differs from the others.” The inhabitants of these discrete tide pools of humanity followed no major world religion, wrote no histories, kowtowed to no great power, and were often unknown even to their neighbors
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ISSUE: Spring 2019
Can a nationalist movement from the internet save the world’s most scattered people?
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March 6, 2019
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Pudong District, Shanghai
March 5, 2019
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Pudong is a sprawling, sparsely populated area with family attractions like Century Park, offering bike trails, boating lakes and minigolf courses, as well as Shanghai Disney Resort. Small, home-style restaurants serve Shanghainese food, while nightlife is centered on the glitzy Lujiazui district. Shanghai World Expo Center draws crowds with its futuristic pavilions, and Pudong International Airport is a major hub.
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I Was 35 When I Discovered I’m on the Autism Spectrum
March 5, 2019
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“Do you hate crowds, especially at supermarkets and restaurants?”
I avoided eye contact, which I knew I wasn’t supposed to do. “Yes.”
If Dr. P. noticed, she was too busy looking at the questionnaire to let on. “Do you tend to repeat heard words, parts of words, or TV commercials?”
I immediately flashed back to middle school, randomly repeating such phrases from TV as, “I don’t think so, Tim,” from Home Improvement. I was tempted to respond that way this time. Instead, I just replied with another, “Yes.”
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Why Food Could Be the Best Medicine of All
March 5, 2019
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When Tom Shicowich’s toe started feeling numb in 2010, he brushed it off as a temporary ache. At the time, he didn’t have health insurance, so he put off going to the doctor. The toe became infected, and he got so sick that he stayed in bed for two days with what he assumed was the flu. When he finally saw a doctor, the physician immediately sent Shicowich to the emergency room. Several days later, surgeons amputated his toe, and he ended up spending a month in the hospital to recover.
Shicowich lost his toe because of complications of Type 2 diabetes as he struggled to keep his blood sugar under control. He was overweight and on diabetes medications, but his diet of fast food and convenient, frozen processed meals had pushed his disease to life-threatening levels.
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March 5, 2019
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