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Over the past week, users of TikTok began absorbing, in a "challenge," one artist's musical investigation into the realities of living through a degenerative neurological disorder. @kadanharne and @quinfinity/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
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Karin Huster was diagnosed with breast cancer during the pandemic. As she yearned for human contact, memories of her work with Ebola patients in Africa came flooding back. Frank Huster for NPR hide caption
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Democratic Presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden (R) and US President Donald Trump take part in the first presidential debate at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 29, 2020. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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New York Times writer & panel moderator Jim Dwyer. The Brooklyn Heights Association's meeting at St Francis College concluded with community service awards to Brooklyn Heights activists, and a panel discussion of the pros & cons of the proposed Brooklyn-Queens trolley system. Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption