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For most of us, pain is a sign of physical injury. Generally the pain fades as the injury heals. But for people with Behcet's Syndrom pain is a constant companion.

Jimmy Palmieri tells Anne Strainchamps about his practice of praying the pain away.

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Economist E. Glen Weyl has invented a market-driven voting system that he believes is much fairer and more democratic than one-vote-per-person majority rule.  It's called Quadratic Voting and it starts with giving everyone a bunch of tokens, or chips, along with a simple mathematical formula for voting.

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Breaking the law by singing "Happy Birthday"? That's absurd.

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Columnist Maureen Dowd says that a lot of people still don’t understand that a columnist is supposed to have a point of view.

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Keith Ward talks about the nature of the soul.

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Lorne Ladner tells Jim Fleming that accepting the inevitability of one’s own death leads a person to truly appreciate living while you can.

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How close are we to electing a woman as president?  Journalist Rebecca Traister says "next election close." 

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In 1975, Dr. Raymond Moody coined the term "near death experience" and published the first definitive account of patients who described dying and coming back to life.  He tells Steve Paulson what he's come to believe after listening to thousands of reports.

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