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  • Barbara Marder waits to receive immunotherapy treatment for cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
    Harnessing The Immune System To Fight Cancer
    Our immune systems constantly fight off disease — protecting us from colds, flu and infection. An experimental treatment called immunotherapy is helping patients' immune systems fight off cancer.
  • Julianne Polito has been sent repeatedly to the "rubber room" on accusations of corporal punishment. She stands outside the trailers that serve as the rubber rooms in Manhattan.
    NYC To Close 'Rubber Rooms' For Teachers In Trouble
    In a deal with the union, the city has agreed to stop sending suspended teachers to reassignment rooms while their cases are pending. The teachers could sit in the so-called rubber rooms for years and do nothing while still getting paid. The teachers will now be sent to school offices to do administrative work.
  • Graner Receives 10-Year Sentence for Iraq Abuses
    Army Spc. Charles Graner is sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the abuse of inmates at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Graner, one of several U.S. soldiers charged in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, has been portrayed as the catalyst of the abuses.NPR's Jackie Northam reports.