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People gather outside a public distribution shop in Rajasthan, India.
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Fair price shops are part of India's Public Distribution System, which distributes food staples at a subsidized price to the poor. The program shows far-reaching benefits.

Researchers link India’s food program to better health and stronger incomes

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Portrait of Charmaine Chua
Charmaine Chua is a 2023 Freedom Scholar
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Wayne Chapman uses a hand drill to start a coal, which Chumash Elder Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto (seated) will use to start the fire.
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Matt Perko
Wayne Chapman uses a hand drill to start a coal, which Chumash Elder Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto (seated) will use to start the fire.
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Historian Kate McDonald
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Matt Perko
Historian Kate McDonald, August 2023
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Two opposing heads with winged and horned brain and tailed and haloed brain.
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Moral reasoning creates distinct patterns of activity in the brain.
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Inez Beverly Prosser superimposed over a classroom
Inez Beverly Prosser is known as the first Black woman psychologist in the United States.