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"Moral distress" — a term first used to describe the emotional torment felt by soldiers trying to process and justify their actions during a war — has more recently been used by doctors talking about the guilt and helplessness they feel when patients can't access care. Lisa Doggett, a physician in Austin, writes about her own moral distress and the systemic improvements needed to alleviate it.
AI is at the center of the Hollywood screenwriters' and actors' strikes. But the threat of AI fascinated audiences long before the technology even existed. Take a look at the long list of sentient AI villains throughout film history, from 2001: A Space Odyssey's HAL-9000 to Blade Runner's replicants. ➡️ Five background actors told NPR they had to undergo face and body scans while working on set. They're worried AI body doubles could make background actors unnecessary one day.
When the historically Black Seafarers Yacht Club of Annapolis was founded in 1959, discrimination at fuel docks around the famous port in Maryland was common. Today, it's thriving as both a social club and community center, with about 80 members working to give back.
Two awkward incidents involving some of the oldest members of Congress have renewed questions over whether a person can be too old to hold office. But while age minimums exist, age maximums can be harder to pass as law. Late last month, Sen. Mitch McConnell, 81, abruptly froze in the middle of a press conference. A day later, 91-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein was told to "just say aye" after a moment of confusion during a vote. |
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Back from Broken, from CPR News: Listen to conversations about what it takes to recover from the biggest challenge of your life. This raw, empathetic show hosted by award-winning journalist and recovering drug addict Vic Vela shows how hope and recovery are possible. 🎧 Natalie Hodges practiced violin nonstop growing up. But debilitating performance anxiety messed up her plans for a professional career. She talks to Vela about discovering the root of her problems and how we all need help sometimes.
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This might be a good week to pop some corn and watch a film about a plot to overthrow the government.
Seven Days in May, the 1964 film, drawn from the novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Baily II, was directed by John Frankenheimer. It stars Burt Lancaster as a strutting, headstrong general, Kirk Douglas as his devoted but suspicious aide, Fredrick March as an earnest president and Ava Gardner as a tough, wise woman who says, in a striking phrase from Rod Serling’s screenplay, “The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff used me like his personal airplane.”
It's terrific: tense, taught and beautifully told. The general dislikes a nuclear disarmament treaty and organizes a plot to overturn the government that signed it.
I'm not recommending the film because it somehow resonates with this week’s indictment. It doesn’t: The U.S. military has scrupulously supported the Constitution. But, the movie reminds us how enthralling a film about people — not CGI superheroes and villains — can be.
Chuck Bailey, by the way, was once NPR’s Washington editor. I told him how I loved his novel and he told me how he visited the film set and the director took him to meet Ava Gardner. "Ava," said John Frankenheimer, "this is Chuck Baily. Co-wrote the book." And Chuck, bless him, said the great star shook his hand and said, "Nice to meet you, dear. But I never read books. And Ernie Hemingway was my dear friend."
"Ernie!" Chuck told me. "What could I say?" |
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