Emma Bowman
Stories
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Health
He weighed 460 pounds. What confronting his size taught him about obesity in America
"Losing weight is figuring out something you can live with," says Tommy Tomlinson, author of the new memoir The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America.
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National
Affordable Care Act Can Stay In Effect While Under Appeal, Judge Says
The federal judge in Texas issued a stay on the health care law more than two weeks after ruling it unconstitutional due to a recent elimination of a tax penalty on uninsured people.
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National
After The Loss Of A Loved One, Your Holiday Traditions Change But Hope Endures
Grief can be amplified this time of year, whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah. Honoring the memory of late family members helps many NPR listeners and readers process their heartache.
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National
'The Dark Side Of The Railroad': A Locomotive Engineer's Fraught Legacy With The Rails
Barnie Botone's grandmother cried when he told her he was a locomotive engineer because an ancestor had been forcibly relocated by train. "The irony, it was too much to bear," he says at StoryCorps.
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National
'I Found The Treasure When I Found You': 2 Veterans Rekindle Bond Forged By War
John Nordeen and Kay Lee lost touch after serving in the Vietnam War. They recall how, decades later, they reconnected. "John, we were so lucky," Lee said. "We survived Vietnam and we're still here."
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National
He Was Shot In A Hate Crime. It Only Strengthened His Judaism
Josh Stepakoff survived a shooting at a Jewish day camp when he was 6 years old. But, as he tells his father, it took years before he began to consider why he was targeted.