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Medical Tourist
A Penn grad student seeks an experimental stem-cell treatment in China that he can't get here.
by Julia Harte
If Ford successfully raises the money on his own, he'll be just one in a nationwide pool of "stem-cell tourists" — Americans who leave their homeland to seek adult stem-cell treatment that doctors are too skeptical, unwilling or (according to advocates) simply intimidated to perform here.

Man Overboard!:
I, Ishmael
Finding fallacy in the SEPTA strike.
by Isaiah Thompson
There's this part in Moby Dick — bear with me — where Captain Ahab whips his crew into booze-fueled cheers to kill the white whale.

A Million Stories

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Icepack
Amorosi on the news, nightlife, gossip and bitchiness beats.
by A.D. Amorosi
As a mean-ass arbiter of a culture that awards everything, I usually can't celebrate celebration.

The Bell Curve
City Paper's Quality-o-Life-o-Meter
When news breaks in Philadelphia, we make jokes.

 
 
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