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of Brent Taylor, who was killed, at age
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National Guard
in Afghanistan.
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of Louisville,
Colo., called it
“heartbreaking,”
and both Faith
Heisler of
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and Dennison
H. MacDonald
of Tullahoma,
Tenn., were
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HeAltH innovAtion iSSue Jamie
Ducharme’s Nov. 4 feature on the first
African-American face-transplant
recipient—and how his case could change
the whole health care system—sparked a
larger discussion
on Twitter about
racial inequities in
American medicine.
“When people ask
whether systemic
inequalities still
exist with #Black
people just look at
the medical industry
worldwide,” said user @ roiannenedd.
User @ soukieg praised the article for its
“insight” into how those disparities came
to be and how they might be rectified.
And user @ MirRobinson was thrilled to
read such a “touching, well-written and
encouraging” article about the transplant,
adding, “It feels like forever since I’ve read
anything about Black people and medicine
that doesn’t depress me.”‘I hope
this does
change
#healthcare.’
@ANGIE_FRITSCHE,
on Twitter‘Americans don’t
see enough
of this reality
unless they
have someone
close to them
who is involved.’
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on TwitterIN THE FRAME
After being
diagnosed with
breast cancer on
her 29th birthday,
photographer
Alyona Kochetkova
began documenting
her life as a patient.
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cancer-at-Back in TIME
The fall of the
Berlin Wall
As the world marks
30 years since the
infamous barrier fell
(page 34), here’s
how TIME described
the moment back
in 1989: “[The]
grim, fearsome
Wall, for almost
three decades a
marker for relentless
oppression, has
overnight become
something far
different, a symbol
of the failure of
regimentation
to suppress the
human yearning for
freedom.” More at
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