
Grace Snell
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2 weeks ago |
wng.org | Lynn Vincent |Anna Brown |Grace Snell
SOUND: [NEW YORK CITY] ANNA JOHANSEN BROWN, HOST: It’s business as usual in America’s largest city. Skyscrapers overshadow teeming sidewalks. Yellow taxis zip by. Neon headlines crawl across billboards. Top story: The death of a brain-injured woman in Florida. Camera crews prowl the New York City streets, stopping passersby for reactions. BYSTANDER 1: She died? Yeah. Whoa, that they should have put the feeding tube in her. So she could live like a human being like you would be supposed to.
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2 weeks ago |
wng.org | Lynn Vincent |Anna Brown |Grace Snell
LYNN VINCENT: It’s March 28, 2005. The Monday after Easter. CARRIE: This afternoon, it’ll mark a full ten days since Terri Schiavo has had any food or water. VINCENT: A white stretch limousine cruises within a block or so of the hospice…then parks. A tall, distinguished-looking man climbs out—an icon of the Civil Rights era and a lightning rod of contemporary politics: The Reverend Jesse Jackson.
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3 weeks ago |
wng.org | Lynn Vincent |Anna Brown |Grace Snell
ANNA JOHANSEN BROWN, HOST: Terri’s time is running out. And the battle for her life consumes the Schindlers. They’ve quit their jobs to become full-time advocates. Bobby leads the charge—juggling phone calls from senators and celebrities. Suzanne fights to stay cheerful for her family. SUZANNE: We had to stay strong for each other. We also had to stay strong for Terri. I mean, we had a fight ahead of us. And all of us had to suck it up and fight for her.
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Jan 16, 2025 |
wng.org | Grace Snell
Raphael Samuel rocketed to sudden worldwide fame when he filed a lawsuit against his parents—for bringing him into the world without his consent. That was six years ago. Today, the 32-year-old martial arts trainer from India admits the move was mostly a publicity stunt. Samuel wasn’t at all surprised when a judge tossed the case less than a year after he filed it. But the ideas behind the lawsuit—the ones he wanted to call attention to—are perfectly serious. Samuel is an antinatalist.
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Jan 16, 2025 |
wng.org | Grace Snell
Jonathan Lubecky lay in a hospital bed and stared at the ceiling as two attendants hooked him up to a medical monitor. One of them handed him a dish that held a single green capsule. The pill contained MDMA, an illegal party drug known as “molly” or “ecstasy.” But Lubecky wasn’t looking for a good time. He was hoping for a cure. For eight years he had battled severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, ever since coming back from a deployment to Iraq.
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