Lawrence Block published the first book of his Matthew Scudder mystery series in 1976. He says when it came to crime fiction inspiration, "the city never failed me. It always provided something."
First-year medical student Ngabo Nzigira gets ready to see a patient at a Kaiser Permanente facility in Sacramento.
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A rooftop view of East Baltimore, 1979.
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Estela de Carlotto (center), head of the Argentine human rights organization that seeks to reunite babies stolen decades ago with their biological relatives, announced on Monday she had located her 36-year-old grandson.
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Stefan Daniel is a 51-year-old German clinical psychologist with multiple sclerosis. He has decided that he will end his life, by taking a barbiturate while sitting in his own living room, when he can no longer see or speak.
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Kate Micucci (left) and Riki Lindhome play a fictional version of their real-life joke-folk duo Garfunkel and Oates in a new scripted comedy on IFC.
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