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It has taken me many years to be well enough — and brave enough to share my story in this way. The article focuses on the onset of my illness. I plan to write more about my experience in death and what my recovery taught me about the power to heal that lies within each of us. I have learned what it takes to recover when no medical professional believed it possible. And I have felt what it is to live in this world when one is ill and with physical limitations. I am grateful for the lessons gained in empathy, knowledge of the body and healing — and patience.

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In-depth interviews with Palestinian women in the West Bank and Gaza shed new light on the situation and needs of Palestinian women and girls. Gender-based violence crisis centres from six countries in the Pacific have faced not only the COVID crisis, but also in some countries, the dual impact of a tropical cyclone. Explore the varied impacts and take a quiz to test your knowledge.

Wielding little more than a pencil, a slide rule and one of the finest mathematical minds in the country, Mrs. Johnson, who died at on Monday at a retirement home in Newport News, Va. A single error, she well knew, could have dire consequences for craft and crew.