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Aadeel Akhtar is on a mission to meet the skyrocketing demand for prosthetics with his bionic Ability Hand—and change the narrative around disability.

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AS Laura Topping looks at the family photos that line the hallway, she pauses on her little girl, Ella. “Ella should be 16 ...

When it rains, it pours E. coli. That’s what water quality testers across Western Pennsylvania might tell you right now.

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