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GLPs are heart drugs

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By Deborah Copaken
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Heart disease runs rampant in my family. Three of my grandparents died of heart disease, two of them young. (My fourth grandparent died of the ravages of old age, but eventually his heart, too, gave out.) My father, before dying young of pancreatic cancer, was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. My mother is currently managing atrial fibrillation.
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The East Coast jellyfish invasion

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By Deborah Copaken
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A lion’s mane jellyfish on the Bethany Beach shore, 08/10/26 ©Deborah Copaken PSA for anyone thinking of swimming in the Atlantic Ocean this August: don’t. The sea, from New England all the way down south, has suddenly become plagued with all kinds of jellyfish this summer—thanks, climate change!—and their stings are no joke. First my partner got stung several times while swimming close to the shore in Bethany Beach, DE, presumably by smaller jellyfish.
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Bruce Feiler is begging you to gather. In person. Whenever possible.

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By Deborah Copaken, Bruce Feiler
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Last weekend, I attended a wedding. The setting, overlooking Mt. Desert Narrows in Bar Harbor, Maine, was perfect. The weather was perfect. The bride looked stunning. The groom, divine. But my partner, who’d been asked to officiate—the groom is his godson—was faced with a painful conundrum: how to celebrate the joy of this special occasion while also acknowledging the concomitant grief of a gathering just one week after the death of the bride’s father?
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