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A group of protestors march in front of the General Accounting Office on March 29, 1995, to raise awareness about the mysterious object that was found in Roswell, N.M., in 1947. Joshua Roberts/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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How the Roswell 'UFO' spurred our modern age of conspiracy theories

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Beware! 'The Baddies' are here to scare your kids — and make them laugh

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How comic Leslie Jones went from funniest person on campus to 'SNL' star

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Stephanie Land's 2019 memoir Maid became a 10-part Netflix series. Erika Peterman/Simon & Schuster hide caption

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A memoir about life 'in the margins,' 'Class' picks up where 'Maid' left off

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A wildfire burns south of Fort McMurray, Alberta, near Highway 63 on Saturday, May 7, 2016. A book about an inferno that ravaged a Canadian city and has been called a portent of climate chaos has won Britain's leading nonfiction book prize. Jonathan Hayward/AP hide caption

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Justin Torres' novel Blackouts won the National Book Award for fiction on Wednesday night. Cindy Ord/Getty Images hide caption

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Justin Torres wins at National Book Awards as authors call for cease-fire in Gaza

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Healing the 'Invisible Ache' behind the suicide crisis among Black men and boys

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Claire Keegan's 'stories of women and men' explore what goes wrong between them

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Dr. Matthew Harris visits the primary health-care center where he worked in Brazil 20 years ago. The author of Decolonizing Healthcare Innovation: Low-Cost Solutions from Low-Income Countries says: "I really think that if people had been more receptive to learning from Brazil 20 years ago, we could have had an army of community health workers in [the U.K.] by now." Courtesy Dr. Matthew Harris hide caption

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Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer in Fellow Travelers. Ben Mark Holzberg/Showtime hide caption

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Design strategist Anna Engstrom created this sketch of a futuristic hospital that appears in Artists Remaking Medicine. She writes that she envisions "a more colorful health care future." Anna Engstrom/Procedure Press hide caption

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Barbra Streisand on her life and legacy in My Name is Barbra. Terry Fincher/Express/Jeff Fusco/Getty Images hide caption

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