Chef Jody Adams' father Thomas knew his health was declining when he could no longer complete the New York Times crossword puzzle. The Brown University rare books librarian had never...
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The number of minorities in classical orchestras is shockingly low. Project Step hopes to change that. "In classical American orchestras, only five percent of its population is black or Latino,"...
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When she first walked through the doors at College Bound Dorchester, Domingas Dos Santos wanted just one thing: to learn English. The thought of earning her GED, let alone a...
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'I couldn't decide what she wanted for lunch, let alone health care'. It’s Thanksgiving Day and you’re stuffed with turkey and a sense of well-being. Surreptitiously loosening your belt while...
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Like many other homeless shelters, the Pine Street Inn in Boston’s South End relies heavily on donated food for the roughly 2,000 meals it prepares each day. And when you’re...
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In January, Sarah Maraniss Vander Schaaff wrote an extraordinary piece for The Washington Post about her struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. Below she writes a new piece — for OCD...
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GWEN IFILL: It’s that time of year when many folks are heading to the beach. But along parts of the southeast coast, vacationers may run into some unwanted visitors, as the...
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A nonprofit is experimenting with shared meals where participants are asked to grapple with their own mortality. In late January, in an Arts and Crafts house on a hill in...
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In the vast areas of the planet covered by water, human activity threatens the survival of countless species. There was a time, for example, when manta rays were tossed back,...
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