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1. What’s missing from the national conversation about the opioid crisis? Compassion.
By Jerome Groopman in the New Yorker
2. Workplace incivility is a silent epidemic and a major cause of employee turnover.
By Ashley Green at the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M
3. We could feed more of the world by rearranging where crops are grown.
By the Earth Institute at Columbia University
4. Why can’t America take care of people with sickle cell disease?
By Jenny Gold at NPR
5. Should we let companies retaliate against hackers? Probably not. They could start a war.
By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai in Motherboard

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