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Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. At the Second Continental Congress of the American colonies, meeting in Philadelphia, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia proposed a motion on June 7, 1776, that proclaimed, "These United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states."

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children in the United States. Each year, more than 4,400 children and teens are shot and killed, and over 17,000 are shot and wounded--an average of 60 per day .

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Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. There is no official anti-childbearing movement in America, but it's often hard not to feel like somebody is out to get parents. The financial math is brutal: most people can't afford to raise children without full-time employment, but childcare takes up a huge slice of parents' income--all while childcare workers are underpaid.

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Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. In 2019, 6-year-old Zacky Muñoz was eating his usual lunch of pasta, salad, and breadsticks at his school cafeteria in Pasadena, California. "I suddenly felt a weird feeling--it was like a fight-or-flight response, an alarm inside my body telling me I was in danger," he says.

Health-wise, recent decades have been dominated by a rise in obesity and associated metabolic disease, significantly affecting the life and health span of Americans. GLP-1s provide the first possibility for a widespread improvement in these issues. Beyond this, it increasingly seems as if they may have wider effects on alcohol and substance abuse and other diseases. Continued understanding of this will reshape how we think about health, food, and beyond. American history is marked by crucibles, from the Industrial Revolution to the atomic age, in which both scientific possibility and human character were subjected to extraordinary pressure.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Has anyone, in or out of the dentist's chair, shined more brightly after losing teeth than Jack Hughes, the New Jersey Devils center, who at the Milano Cortina Olympics scored the game-winning goal in overtime to give Team USA a 2-1 win over Canada, and the Americans their first men's hockey gold medal since the 1980 Miracle on Ice? Despite a high-stick to the mouth from Canada's Sam Bennett late in the third period, Hughes played on and fired a left-wing rocket past goalkeeper Jordan Binnington to seal the victory.