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When Dr. Steven Kahn, a distinguished physician specializing in diabetes, published a co-authored editorial in April in the journal Diabetes Care criticizing the Trump administration’s proposal to cut the National Institutes of Health’s funding by $5 billion, he had no way of knowing that the article would result in his forcible ejection from the American Diabetes Association’s annual Scientific Sessions just two months later.

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Pawel Krasicki had been working the fry station at a restaurant in John F Kennedy International Airport when his father’s cancer diagnosis made the rigid hours of restaurant work impossible. Like many Americans struggling to care for a sick parent, Krasicki, a Polish immigrant, found himself in need of supplemental income. That’s when he turned to “canning”: collecting aluminum cans and plastic and glass bottles and redeeming them for a return value of usually a nickel. Then he got laid off.