Todd Mitchem kept struggling to have honest, productive conversations with his son. “He’s 15,” Mr. Mitchem, 52, said with a laugh. “Teenagers are so difficult to connect with.” Every time he tried to bring up a sensitive issue, his son would give vague answers or run away, preferring to avoid serious talks altogether. In the…
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After medical instruments called duodenoscopes sickened hundreds of patients in hospital outbreaks a few years ago, the Food and Drug Administration urged health care facilities to switch to models with disposable components less likely to carry bacteria from one patient to another. Now the agency says there are problems with those instruments, too. Duodenoscopes are…
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At the height of the pandemic, Ilson Leir Goncalves was winning a reputation around Montclair, N.J., as a restaurateur who refused to quit. In the spring of 2020, he sold his house and put the proceeds toward expanding his restaurant, Samba Montclair, so customers could sit farther apart. When everything in the restaurant was destroyed…
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Years later, I still told the undergraduate students in my research methods class the story of my first date with Corey to help them remember the concept of regression to the mean — how something that is extreme on a first measurement will become less extreme, or regress to the mean, on a second measurement.…
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Hannah Shea Sellinger often got on the mic during pep rallies at Byron Nelson High School in Trophy Club, Texas, with a nod to the girls’ varsity basketball team. “She made varsity freshman year,” said Basil Azim, part of the enthusiastic crowd, though he barely knew her. They are both now 24, and he came…
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A heartfelt smile can be infectious, and for Anna Clare Spelman and Peter Prix, it commenced their love story. Ms. Spelman and Mr. Prix had been living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for less than a year when they joined a local volleyball club. During a game in May 2013, they spotted each other on opposite…
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The first time Jennifer Nicole Walters spoke with John Clark Palicka was over the phone, it was in preparation for a training mission scheduled for the following day. Both were U.S. Air Force pilots stationed at Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, Calif. The phone call, which took place in April 2016, was brief…
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The children moved in with an aunt, and with money tight, Ms. Malaret was forced to work from an early age cleaning houses and windows. “My aunt gave me tools,” she said in a 2012 interview. “She taught me that the essence was in me. ‘It’s in you, it’s in you’, she would repeat.” She…
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