As the World Turns.

Other towns are being hit with library closures.
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Now it's okay for medical experiments to be conducted without your consent.

Just for fun, here is the article about the infamous David Reimer case, whereby a quack--excuse me, a distinguised doctor, the late John Money--helped force this person to take on a female identity when he was little as a result of a botched circumcision.

It was widely reported in the media in the early 1970s, and many feminists referred to the case as somehow challenging conventional ideas about male and female roles and identity.

Well, it was quackery, but unfortunately after a very difficult life, Reimer committed suicide in 2004.
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The Golden Gate Bridge turns 70 today.
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Delta and Dawn continue on their way to the Pacific Ocean as researchers try to determine what is causing the growths on their backs.
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