Emily Coakley

Most Recent Articles by Emily Coakley

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  Autoimmune Diseases Affect Millions
  Karla Lindula of Seattle woke up one day with such severe pain in her hands that she couldn’t hold a hairbrush. “There was no warning for this. It came on suddenly and unexpectedly. Over the course of two to three weeks, it worsened and I went into the doctor’s to get checked out,” Lindula said. Tests indicated she had lupus, an autoimmune disease. After a year of treatment, her doctors determined she actually had a different autoimmune disease, rheumatoid arthritis.
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  The Bumbling Vice President: Pattern or Unfair Caricature?
  As the media reports on Vice President Joe Biden’s latest misstep, some wonder if he is fulfilling the long-standing stereotype of a bumbling second-in-command.
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  On This Day: Supreme Court Rules to Protect Written Profanity
  On June 7, 1971, the Supreme Court ruled that profanity, in certain circumstances, is protected by the first amendment.
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  On This Day: Crusaders Launch Siege of Jerusalem
  On June 7, 1099, Christian knights launched an assault to free Jerusalem from Egyptian control as part of the first Crusade.
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  UK’s Expenses Row Claims More Officials
  In Britain, two top-level government officials and a number of Parliament members have resigned over taxpayer-funded expenses that have provoked public outrage.