"There will always be the older white woman in Walmart who stared at us with sheer disgust, or the African-American mother who looked at us and just shook her head.”
Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon and former agnostic, suffered a rare and severe case of streptococcal meningitis which caused his brain to flatline. Dr. Alexander made a miraculous recovery and says the experience taught him to “realize that our souls are eternal.”
Sammy Teuch, an Indiana fourth-grader, took his own life earlier this month after enduring what his family has called relentless bullying at the hands of several students.
The TJX Companies Inc., mothership of all things TJ Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods, has continued to pay its employees in Puerto Rico even while its 29 stores on the island remain closed more than a month after destruction.
Aiden Franklin doesn’t have many memories of her dad. The 12-year-old has spent the last six years away from her father as he serves a 17-year prison sentence.
With camera in-hand, Habak and his colleagues ran straight into the blast area, carrying people away from the danger zone, and having their painful cries permanently etched into the reporters’ minds.
