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Goats and Soda

'Floating Schools' Make Sure Kids Get To Class When The Water Rises

Monsoon floods won't stop these kids from going to school in Bangladesh — especially if the school comes to the student!

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6-Figure Price Tag Expected For Rare Apple-1 Computer At Auction

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Barb Williamson runs several sobriety houses in Pennsylvania, commercially run homes where residents support each other in their recovery from opioid addiction. Initially, she says, she saw the use of Suboxone or methadone by residents as "a crutch," and banned them. But evidence the medicines can be helpful changed her mind. Kimberly Paynter/WHYY hide caption

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Many 'Recovery Houses' Won't Let Residents Use Medicine To Quit Opioids

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'Floating Schools' Make Sure Kids Get To Class When The Water Rises

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An election official holds an electronic voting machine memory card following the Georgia primary runoff elections at a polling location in Atlanta on July 24, 2018. A group of Georgia voters is suing the state, saying that the electronic machines are not secure. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption

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Federal Court Asked To Scrap Georgia's 27,000 Electronic Voting Machines

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