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University students who belong to indigenous tribes prepare for a ceremony to affirm their ethnic identity. Taiwan's aboriginal tribes arrived thousands of years before Chinese immigrants, but now account for only 2 percent of the population. Anthony Kuhn/NPR hide caption

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Taiwan's Aborigines Hope A New President Will Bring Better Treatment

Aborigines account for 2 percent of Taiwan's population and face numerous challenges. In an aboriginal village, people hope Taiwan's new president will provide more favorable treatment and policies.

Donald Trump delivered a speech on April 27, 2016 in Washington, D.C. using a teleprompter, a "pivot" in style, after saying he wouldn't use one. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption

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Politics, Pundits And The Problem With The Word 'Pivot'

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Lonny Shavelson has studied America's experiments with aid in dying. He's now helping patients and doctors in California come to grips with the state's new law. Courtesy of PhotoWords.com hide caption

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This Doctor Wants To Help California Figure Out Aid-In-Dying

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University students who belong to indigenous tribes prepare for a ceremony to affirm their ethnic identity. Taiwan's aboriginal tribes arrived thousands of years before Chinese immigrants, but now account for only 2 percent of the population. Anthony Kuhn/NPR hide caption

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Taiwan's Aborigines Hope A New President Will Bring Better Treatment

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Soprano Andriana Chuchman and tenor Sean Panikkar in a scene from Shalimar the Clown. Ken Howard/Opera Theatre of Saint Louis hide caption

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Salman Rushdie's 'Shalimar The Clown' Is Now An Opera

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A booking photo provided by the Santa Clara County sheriff shows Brock Turner, whose sentence of six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman has caused outrage. AP hide caption

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How Ousting The Judge In The Stanford Sexual Assault Case Could Impact Future Cases

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The prothonotary warbler can be found in the eastern United States. Flickr user John Jackson/Flickr Creative Commons hide caption

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Nestpionage! And Other Feathered Curiosities From History

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The Editor's Epic: Maxwell Perkins Makes For An Unlikely Big-Screen Hero

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"Somebody once said — I don't know who it was — that gospel music is just the idea that everything is going to be all right," says Eli Paperboy Reed. Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Eli Paperboy Reed Finds His 'Way Home' — To Gospel

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