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A degree 72 years in the making: Donna Meisel’s nontraditional path in higher education

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The cool blue glow of a desktop monitor is the only light in Donna’s office as she sits at her desk, rubbing her temples. For most Temple University students, finding sources for a research paper is a relatively mundane task. For Danuta “Donna” Meisel, a blind, 72-year-old Polish immigrant with throat cancer, a literature review […]

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A Crisis of Care: As California considers conservatorship reform, one mother struggles to keep her son safe

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Kathryn carried a fresh pepperoni pizza into the visiting room, just as she had the week before and the week before that. Her son shuffled in barefoot through an opposite door that was unlocked by facility staff. The nervousness that led Kathryn to take two wrong turns on the familiar drive across the Santa Clara

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David’s Bridal bankruptcy, layoffs emblematic of impacts from shift to online retail

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When wedding retail giant David’s Bridal filed for bankruptcy in April, the company left thousands of its employees in limbo as they searched for a buyer to save the company.  Amanda Michaelson was in the first wave of layoffs at the corporate office in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, where she worked as a buyer. “I had to

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The Third Craft Revival: How A New Generation of Fabric Artists Emerged During the Pandemic

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While most pandemic pastimes have fallen out of vogue, knit and crochet — whose tactile and slow-moving qualities comforted many during quarantine — seem to have stuck. Now, a new generation of fabric artists is navigating how to sustain their craft in an eagerly progressing world. 

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