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When she was 13, Linda Kay Klein joined an evangelical church that valued sexual purity. She recounts her experiences in the memoir Pure.

Memoirist: Evangelical Purity Movement Sees Women's Bodies As A 'Threat'

6:52pm September 18, 2018

by Terry Gross

In Pure, Linda Kay Klein reflects on the "deep, long-lasting shame" caused by churches that claim women and girls are responsible for the sexual desires of men.

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Triad DOT Crews Lending A Helping Hand In Eastern NC

4:30pm September 18, 2018

by David Ford

The North Carolina Department of Transportation's Guilford County Division is sending employees to some of the hardest hit areas in the aftermath of Florence.

Sudanese workers offload U.S. aid destined for South Sudan from the World Food Programme (WFP) at Port Sudan on March 19, 2017.

Why The U.S. Ranks At The Bottom In A Foreign Aid Index

4:18pm September 18, 2018

by Joanne Lu

In a newly published index, the Center for Global Development assesses the quantity and quality of aid from 27 wealthy countries.

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'Nightmare That Won't End': Storm Evacuees Can't Return Yet

3:26pm September 18, 2018

by CHUCK BURTON and MARTHA WAGGONER , Associated Press

Hundreds of people waited in long lines for water and other essentials in Wilmington, still mostly cut off by rising water days after Hurricane Florence unleashed epic floods, and North Carolina's governor pleaded with more than 10,000 evacuees around the state not to return home yet.

Shadrach Mugoya Levi, right, at his recent wedding in Uganda. From left: his son Oren Levi and Moshe Isiko.

What The Yom Kippur Fast Means To A Man Who's Known Hunger

1:39pm September 18, 2018

by Sara Toth Stub

Shadrach Mugoya Levi is the spiritual leader of a community of Uganda Jews. After a year of study in Jerusalem, he says he's more prepared than ever for the Day of Atonement.

Physicians face long hours, frustrating paperwork and sometimes difficult patients. But researchers aren't so clear on whether burnout is the right word to describe their problems.

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Doctors Today May Be Miserable, But Are They 'Burnt Out'?

12:30pm September 18, 2018

by Mara Gordon

There's a lively debate going on in the medical community about physician burnout. Who has it? How bad is it? Is it even real?

If patients are obese, their physicians should refer them to behavior-based weight loss programs or offer their own, a national panel of experts says. Yet many doctors aren't having the necessary conversations with their patients.

Doctors Should Send Obese Patients To Diet Counseling, Panel Says. But Many Don't

12:05pm September 18, 2018

by Erin Blakemore

Behavior-based weight-loss programs that focus on diet and exercise can work for obese patients, a national panel of experts says. But many doctors aren't having the necessary conversations.

Dessa went looking for the source of love in her brain, and then turned to the frontiers of neuroscience to try and heal a broken heart.

This Rapper Tried To Use Neuroscience To Get Over Her Ex

11:01am September 18, 2018

Dessa is a singer and writer from Minneapolis who spent years trying to fall out of love and get over her ex. Nothing seemed to help — until she visited a research lab for a brain scan.

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Downtown New Bern Residents Cleaning Up From Florence

10:44am September 18, 2018

by Jared Brumbaugh, Public Radio East

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Hurricane Rating System Fails To Account For Deadly Rain

9:24am September 18, 2018

by SETH BORENSTEIN and ALLEN G. BREED , Associated Press

When meteorologists downgraded Hurricane Florence from a powerful Category 4 storm to a Category 2 and then a Category 1, Wayne Mills figured he could stick it out.