The World and Everything in It - April 28, 2021

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

The Manchin Effect is real in Washington. We’ll talk about the outsized power of the Senator from West Virginia.

NICK EICHER, HOST: That’s ahead on Washington Wednesday,

Also today, why so many Nigerians want to leave home and head to Europe or the United States.

And a visit to a farm that makes your lush lawn possible.

And finding God’s blessings in the search for a warm coat.

RECHARD: It’s Wednesday, April 28th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

Time now for the news with Kent Covington.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Biden to make first address to joint session of Congress » President Biden tonight will address a joint session of Congress for the first time.

Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the president will touch on a range of issues.

PSAKI: Including police reform, immigration, gun safety, his ongoing work to get the pandemic under control, and to putting Americans back to work.

He will also pitch the final piece of his $4 trillion dollar spending proposal. The initiative, which he calls the American Family Plan, would spend hundreds of billions of dollars on Democratic priorities.

The president will address Congress and the nation at 8 p.m. Eastern Time tonight.

Biden signs $15 minimum wage for federal contract workers » On Tuesday, President Biden signed an executive order to raise the minimum wage for federal contractors.

Jen Psaki told reporters,

PSAKI: The executive order will increase the hourly minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 in new and renewed contracts and contract options starting in January 2022. This increase must be implemented by March 30th 2022.

She said minimum wage will also be indexed to an inflation measure to keep up with the cost of living.

The current minimum is $10.95 an hour.

The tipped minimum wage of $7.65 an hour for federal contractors would also be replaced by the standard minimum by 2024.

The White House says hundreds of thousands of workers will receive raises. Critics of the move say it will likely lead contractors to eliminate jobs.

New guidance on masks » The CDC says Americans who are fully vaccinated no longer need masks outdoors—unless they’re in a large crowd.

For most of the past year, the CDC had recommended wearing face coverings outdoors if you’re within 6 feet of other people.

But CDC Director Rochelle Walensky added,

WALENSKY: We know that the virus spreads very well indoors. Until more people are vaccinated, and while we still have more than 50,000 cases a day, mask use indoors will provide extra protection.

The change comes as more than half of U.S. adults have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

New guidance for drugs to fight opioid addiction » The Biden administration also moved on Tuesday to ease decades-old rules that made it tough for doctors to treat opioid addiction with medication. WORLD’s Anna Johansen Brown has more.

ANNA JOHANSEN BROWN: The new guidelines announced yesterday mean that doctors will no longer need extra hours of training to prescribe buprenorphine. That’s a medication that helps with cravings.

And prescribers will no longer have to refer patients to counseling services.

Under the loosened guidelines, prescribers will be able to treat up to 30 patients at a time with the drug.

Because of how opioids act on the brain, people dependent on them get sick if they stop using. Withdrawal can feel like a bad flu with cramping, sweating, anxiety, and sleeplessness.

Buprenorphine helps by moving a patient from powerful painkillers or an illicit opioid like heroin to a regular dose of a legal opioid-based medication.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Anna Johansen Brown.

Montana gov. Signs pro-life bills into law » Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte has signed three new pro-life bills into law.

The Republican governor signed legislation into law this week that will protect the lives of unborn babies after 20 weeks of gestation.

The new laws will also require healthcare providers to give pregnant women the opportunity to view an ultrasound before performing an abortion, and place several restrictions on abortion pills.

The pro-life victory comes after 16 years under Democratic governors, who vetoed past attempts to pass similar laws.

Russian court restricts Navalny’s anti-corruption foundation » A Moscow court on Tuesday moved to silence opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s anti-corruption organization. WORLD’s Leigh Jones reports.

LEIGH JONES: The Moscow City Court restricted the activities of an organization founded by the imprisoned opposition leader. The move effectively suspends the Foundation for Fighting Corruption pending a decision on whether it and other affiliated organizations should be outlawed as extremist groups.

Tuesday’s ruling was another step in the sweeping crackdown on Navalny and his allies, who are highly critical of President Vladimir Putin.

A lawyer for the foundation said it’s no longer allowed to use the media or the internet to distribute content or organize public events.

But the director of the Foundation for Fighting Corruption, Ivan Zhdanov, struck a defiant tone, saying the group will carry on its work.

Alexei Navalny has been behind bars since January, and many of his aides and associates were arrested or face criminal charges.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Leigh Jones.

I’m Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: the Senate wildcard.

Plus, Janie B. Cheaney on the search for perfection.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Wednesday, the 28th of April, 2021.

You’re listening to The World and Everything in It and we’re so glad to have you join us today! Good morning, I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

First up: the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.

The Senate’s divided evenly between Republicans and Democrats: 50 seats apiece. But with Vice President Kamala Harris holding the tie-breaking vote, Democrats do have a slight advantage.

But that all hinges on Democrats voting together. Which doesn’t always happen. The senior senator from West Virginia is a maverick among Democrats, and frequently, he goes his own way.

REICHARD: Yeah, you might call Joe Manchin a thorn in his party’s side. Or the most powerful person in Washington.

This week, Joe Manchin is showing that. He’s flexing his political muscle to hold back President Biden’s nearly $2 trillion infrastructure spending package.

EICHER: Here’s Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Fox News Sunday describing the negotiations over the bill.

GRAHAM: Watch Joe Manchin. Joe’s going to be a key player here. I met with him a couple of days ago.

REICHARD: Just about everyone in Washington wants to meet with Joe Manchin right now!

And joining us to talk about why is WORLD’s national editor, Jamie Dean. Good morning, Jamie!

JAMIE DEAN, REPORTER: Good morning, Mary.

REICHARD: Well, why?

DEAN: The short answer is that he has a lot of power. Now, Manchin’s power doesn’t really come from a specific leadership role or a committee appointment. It comes from being a wild card. Manchin is considered the Democratic swing vote in a Senate that’s divided 50/50. That means in some cases, Manchin might be the only Democrat willing to block some of his party’s most radical proposals. And since you can’t always be sure which way he’ll go, that makes him a very popular—and sometimes unpopular—lawmaker.

REICHARD: That sounds like a lot of pressure.

DEAN: It does, but it’s pressure that Manchin often seems to relish. He’s taken on an unofficial role as the guy who tries to get people together. When he’s in D.C., he lives on a houseboat called Almost Heaven. (I’m sure John Denver fans will catch that West Virginia reference.) And he’s is known to host these bipartisan happy hours, where he invites political opposites to come on board the boat and hang out. To some people, that probably doesn’t sound too much like heaven, but it is part of his image as the senator willing to talk to both sides of the aisle.

REICHARD: Okay, what about policy: Has he been willing to vote with Republicans?

DEAN: He has been willing. When President Trump won the election in 2016, Manchin visited him in Trump Tower in New York—much to the consternation of some Democrats. And he ended up voting to confirm most of Trump’s cabinet appointments. Manchin was one of three Democratic senators to vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, and the only Democrat to advance Justice Brett Kavanaugh. That made him quite unpopular with some Democrats during that contentious confirmation process. Now, he also showed a willingness to go against Trump, and that soured the former president on Manchin. Late last year, Manchin voted against confirming Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. He said he thought the selection of a justice should wait until after the presidential election that was right around the corner.

In 2020, Manchin voted to convict Trump after his impeachment. That definitely soured the president on Manchin, and Trump nicknamed him “Joe Munchkin.”

REICHARD: That wasn’t Manchin’s first nickname, though, right?

DEAN: No it wasn’t. A year after he endorsed Hillary Clinton for the presidency in 2015, Clinton declared her energy policies were “going to put a lot of coal miners out of business.” As you might imagine, that wasn’t a popular campaign promise in West Virginia’s coal country. When Manchin expressed displeasure, but maintained his endorsement of Clinton, some constituents called him “Traitor Joe.”

REICHARD: Well, let’s talk about his constituents a bit. Is it surprising that a Democrat would hold a Senate seat in West Virginia?

DEAN: Not until recently. West Virginia had been friendly ground for Democrats for years. Manchin’s predecessor, Sen. Robert Byrd, was a Democrat who served in the Senate for 50 years. Certainly, many West Virginians would consider themselves moderate or conservative. In 2012, Republican Mitt Romney won West Virginia by about 26 percentage points in the presidential election. In 2016, Trump won the state in a landslide. Even so, Manchin managed to hang onto his Senate seat in 2018, when a lot of people thought a Democrat might be vulnerable in a state that a Republican president won so handily. But Manchin has a long history of political leadership in the state, and he has cultivated a following that has stayed loyal to him in the voting booth. It’s part of why Democrats in D.C. tolerate Manchin: If they want a Senate seat in West Virginia, they know they need Manchin to win.

REICHARD: But at the same time, I’m sure they also want him to vote with them in D.C.

DEAN: They do, and this brings us back to Manchin’s powerful role at the moment. Since Democrats control the White House and Congress, they’d like to pass lots of legislation. But Manchin has pushed back on some of their most sweeping ideas. He bucked President Biden’s call for raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour in the coronavirus relief package in February.

Manchin said he wouldn’t defund the police, or pay for a Green New Deal, or vote for Medicare for All. He’s pushing back on Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan, saying it’s too expensive. He’s said in the past that he couldn’t vote for the Equality Act as it’s currently written. That’s legislation that many view as a direct attack on religious liberty. And perhaps most notably, he’s refused to budge so far on Democratic calls to eliminate the filibuster. The filibuster is the legislative provision that requires a 60-vote threshold to move forward with most forms of major legislation. As long as that’s intact, Democrats aren’t going to be able to push forward many of their proposals with a simple majority.

REICHARD: That must please Republicans.

DEAN: It does, but you have to remember that Manchin is still voting with Democrats as well. One episode that’s been particularly distressing to some Republicans was Manchin agreeing to vote for the COVID-19 relief bill without the Hyde Amendment attached.That’s the provision aimed at prohibiting federal funding for most abortions.In the past, Manchin has voted for budgets that would allow funding for Planned Parenthood, but has said that’s contingent on the Hyde Amendment being attached.In the COVID bill, Democrats didn’t attach Hyde, but Manchin wound up voting for the legislation in the end.

REICHARD: Does Manchin consider himself pro-life?

DEAN: He does, but his record his mixed on that issue. As I just mentioned, he’s voted for budgets that allow for funding Planned Parenthood. Even with the Hyde Amendment attached, most pro-life advocates aren’t in favor of giving taxpayer funds to the nation’s largest abortion facilitator. Pro-life advocates were also unhappy when Manchin voted to confirm Xavier Becerra as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Beccera is the former attorney general of California who filed the felony charges against David Daleiden for his organization’s undercover videos about Planned Parenthood. Manchin said he voted to confirm Becerra because he thinks Becerra will uphold the Hyde Amendment. Becerra is only bound to uphold Hyde if lawmakers continue to include it in legislation. We know that Biden and other Democrats have already called for eliminating Hyde long-term. So you can see why so many consider Manchin a wild card, and why it will be important to keep watching him over the months ahead.

REICHARD: Jamie Dean is WORLD national editor and our chief political reporter. Jamie, as always, thank you.

DEAN: My pleasure.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: a World Tour special report.

Nigerians have left their home country for the United States and Europe for decades. In 2018, the Pew Research Center took a poll in Nigeria to find out how many others might leave. Forty-five percent said they expected to within the next five years.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Most of those leaving are highly educated professionals. Doctors and nurses are especially anxious to go. That’s left Africa’s most populous country vulnerable.

Why are so many people searching for new opportunities so far from home? WORLD’s Onize Ohikere talked to one woman to find out.

ONIZE OHIKERE, REPORTER: Mimi Emmanuel had big plans for her future in Nigeria.

EMMANUEL: I was hoping at some point I’d have my own law firm. I had my law degree. I was getting my MBA. The plan was to long-term be in a financial firm where I the legal person but at the same time the labor law aspect of it, still be in that financial environment. So, like law and finance.

After passing the bar exam, she worked at several law firms and a financial firm. But she lacked the connections you need in Nigeria to move up in your career.

EMMANUEL: So, like, I had the work experience. I had the degrees. But it wasn’t still going to make a way for me, basically.

In 2017, she reconnected with an old classmate who had immigrated to Canada.

EMMANUEL: We got talking. I could see the difference in what his life was at the time and what mine was. Even though at the time I would say we had the same type of qualifications. He’s a professional as well in his field and I was, but you could see the clear difference—what he was able to achieve here given the environment and the way it encourages you to thrive. I didn’t have those opportunities.

When Emmanuel learned Canada wanted skilled workers to relocate, she decided to give it a try.

EMMANUEL: For me it was pretty straightforward.

She filled out an application and passed all the tests. Family members helped her raise the money she needed to show she could support herself. Six months later, she got word that she was in.

EMMANUEL: I was too happy. I told my mom. It was nice.

Canada has long served as a haven for Africans fleeing conflict and unrest at home. But Mimi Emmanuel is one of a growing number of young economic migrants willing to travel half way around the world for better opportunities.

In 2019, nearly 13-thousand Nigerians immigrated to Canada.

The process may be straightforward, but the transition is often difficult.

EMMANUEL: The reality dawned on me that my family is not here. I’m just alone here. Initially, I’m like, ooh, I’m happy. Then when I got here, I was like, oh, I hope I didn’t just make a wrong decision. It was difficult for me because I’ve been out of Nigeria to other African countries, but I’ve never been in a place where it didn’t feel like home.

Emmanuel didn’t know anyone in her new home. And she struggled with the realization that she was very different from her new neighbors.

EMMANUEL: I’ve always known I’m dark skinned, but now it’s like, oh, I’m actually different. There was actually an experience I had where a kid yelled, “She’s black!” at me in a store. So that took a toll on me.

Like most young immigrants Emmanuel had to put her professional career on hold to start with low-skilled jobs.

EMMANUEL: The truth is, even though they are minimum-wage jobs, I still make a lot more than I made in Nigeria. A whole lot more. And I’m able to afford my needs. I’m able to get my wants to some extent. So it’s not bad. Because in Nigeria I was barely scraping through. I was just barely making it.

On top of the economic insecurity in Nigeria, Emmanuel also faced daily fears for her safety.

EMMANUEL: Nigeria is really unsafe right now on several levels. Especially in several communities where just your religion makes you a target. Here it’s not the first thing you think about when you meet someone. Nigeria is very, very unsafe. I know many times I used to be scared getting home after work. Every day it was, I just pray I get home safe. And I mean that in the most sincere way.

Many of those same issues are pushing Nigeria’s medical professionals to leave as well. The country only has about 74,000 registered doctors for its 200 million people.

Nigeria’s health minister said the government would work to resolve the physician “brain drain.” But Emmanuel doesn’t expect much to change.

EMMANUEL: I feel like the government really doesn’t care. Even when people are not comfortable with what’s going on. I mean it’s supposed to be the government for the people, but it’s the other way around. The government is just for themselves.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Onize Ohikere in Abuja, Nigeria.

NICK EICHER, HOST: You’ve probably had the experience of driving down a highway when a rock kicks up and cracks your windshield.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Startling.

EICHER: Well, this was way worse. This thing came all the way through.

DAUGHTER: It just came through the windshield and hit my mom in the head!

Terrifying. That’s the driver calling 911, and her mom, the passenger, is bleeding. Though, thankfully, conscious.

But what in the world came through the windshield and why? More of the 911 call explains the mystery. You’ll hear a man’s voice in the background. He’d stopped to offer help.

DAUGHTER: Do you see anything in my front seat?

MAN: There’s a turtle in there.

DAUGHTER: A turtle?

MAN: Yea.

DAUGHTER: An actual turtle?

Yeah, an actual turtle. The mom, she pretty much walked away with a one-inch cut on her forehead and was not badly hurt. Which is remarkable given they were going at highway speed and turtles are armored.

And it was the armor that protected the turtle which suffered only a few scratches. EMTs released him into nearby woods. The hospital released mom no worse for the wear.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, April 28th

This is WORLD Radio and we’re glad to have you along today.

Good morning. I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: growing green ... grass, that is.

I don’t know about you, but I’m excited to see my lawn coming back to life. Little spring green blades that smell good.

Not so exciting? Firing up the lawn mower.

Either way, spring reminds us how much we desire to have that lush natural green carpet.

But have you ever stopped to think about where your grass comes from? WORLD’s Sarah Schweinsberg visited the Grass Seed Capital of the World to find out.

SOUND: COMBINE RUNNING

SARAH SCHWEINSBERG, REPORTER: Mechanics are busy tuning up the engines of four green combines. This summer, the massive machines will move through grass fields in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.

They’ll pick up cut grass, spit out the blade, and keep the seed. That seed is what Jordyn Coon and her family are after.

JORDYN: Inside the combine, there is air movement, there is physical agitation. And you end up with just the grass seeds themselves in the tank and everything else blows out the back.

Coon and her older brother K.C. are the sixth generation operating their family farm.

The family used to raise wheat and livestock. But in the 1960s, many Oregon farmers, including the Coons, switched to raising grasses.

K.C. Coon says the climate here quickly made Oregon the center of global grass seed production.

K.C.: We have, I guess it'd be a kind of a Mediterranean type climate here. And so cool season grasses thrive here, because we aren't hot. And we don't freeze.

The family grows two types of grasses: forage and turfs. Forage grasses are for livestock to eat. And turf grasses cover lawns, parks, and golf courses. They provide a cooling effect and beauty.

K.C.: I mean there are thousands of varieties just under those two categories.

Today, K.C. is heading out to spray grass crops for weeds while Jordyn drives around the farm checking on fields.

SOUND: DRIVING

The Coons planted most of these grasses last fall. It’s not far into spring, but the blades are quickly shooting up.

One field is already 6 inches tall. It’s a turf grass—deep green with thick, dense blades.

JORDYN: I think this field right behind us is a golf course grass.

But unlike a golf course, the Coons won’t keep this carpet neatly mowed. They’ll let it keep growing tall until it comes to seed.

JORDYN: If a person just let their lawn grow, it's going to become incredibly tall, and eventually it will produce seeds.

In another field, a forage grass grows.

JORDYN: Alright, so this is triticale. So it is a deep green. It's got a thick blade of grass. It is a cross between rye and wheat. This will be for cattle, sheep, goats.

But the Coons don’t only grow grass. They grow some crops that will help grass grow better.

SOUND: CAR DOORS SLAMMING

In another field down the road, a field of tall stems with yellow flowers waves in the breeze.

Beehives near the field buzz with activity.

SOUND: BUZZING BEES

These are turnips in bloom. The turnips help break up the soil, making it easier for grasses planted later to send out their roots.

The Coons will only harvest the turnip seeds. They’ll leave the bulbs alone.

JORDYN: We leave them in the ground. Its organic matter breaks down. Those turnips just add back to the soil.

Jordyn Coon says grasses are valuable plants for humans, animals, and soil.

JORDYN: You have your fun uses of it. For people's enjoyment, grass is important. There's a lot of oxygen, you know, photosynthesis and carbon sequestration going on in grass.

The family will harvest most of the grass seeds later this summer and fall.

And when they do, the crop comes here.

SOUND: CONVEYOR BELT RUNNING

JORDYN: So everything post field happens in this building.

Inside a massive white shop, a series of conveyor belts are moving, shaking and sifting the seeds. Air compressors blow away dust.

JORDYN: The goal when we sell seed is for it to be as close to completely pure seed of only what that one variety, that one type of seed is.

Once dust and weeds have been sifted out, the tiny seeds drop down through a chute and into a bag. Some bags hold 50 pounds. Others hold up to 2,000 pounds.

Then an automated sewing machine stitches the bag shut. These seeds are ready for sale.

Every single bag gets a serial number that identifies where the seed came from.

JORDYN: Maybe they plant something, and there's weeds in it. They can figure out where it came from and try and figure out the issue.

A nearby shed stores hundreds of seed bags neatly stacked in tall piles.

JORDYN: This is perennial ryegrass. A few rows down is fescue, another grass. And then further down, you might find some rye grass as well.

The Coons don’t sell their products directly to homeowners or farmers. They contract with large seed companies that will brand and sell the bags themselves.

Some seeds go all over the world.

JORDYN: It's here waiting for the buyer to decide where to send it. And a truck will come. We'll load it and it'll head off on a cargo ship or something.

Over sixty years, the family has seen demand for grass seed ebb and flow.

K.C. Coon says after the 2008 housing collapse, the family didn’t sell a single pound of lawn grass seed for three years.

K.C.: We got to the point where we were going to have to start selling just to have cash. And we held off about two weeks or three weeks. And all of a sudden, we started selling and making money and started getting things paid down, getting healed up.

Last year held something else unpredictable. The coronavirus confined people at home. That led to an increase in lawn seed demand.

K.C. says the challenge of raising this crop, and its importance, keeps the Coons hanging on through it all.

K.C.: So grass seed in and of itself to most people wouldn't be exciting. The exciting part is the chess match of if I do this, what is the cause? Or the effect? And how do I make it yield better?

MUSIC: WHERE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS BY TIM MCGRAW

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Sarah Schweinsberg in Shedd, Oregon.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Wednesday, April 28th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Here’s World commentator Janie B. Cheaney on seeing the Providential in the propitious.

REICHARD: Precisely.

JANIE B. CHEANEY, COMMENTATOR: Does anyone know what perfection looks like—until they see it? We know imperfection well enough: “I expected better.” “It’s not supposed to be this way.” “What am I missing?”

In the deep winter of 2020, I was missing family, community, even purpose. I was missing gut-level assurance in the pall of winter. And I was missing a good, warm, winter coat.

My best shopping options are over an hour away, so I can’t just drop in at the outlet mall for half an hour. It took some time management, but on a day in February when the high temperature never topped 20 degrees, I was negotiating traffic on the south end of town. Lord willing, I intended to come home with a versatile, serviceable winter coat that would cost around $45 and last me the rest of my life.

Perfection was not on my list. At the end of the season my choices would be limited. Enough so, that if I couldn’t find anything I wouldn’t be surprised. That was just my life lately.

Nothing at Target. A gray fleece-lined knit at Kohl’s; easy care, might work if they had it in another size … but they didn’t. The other choice at Kohl’s looked something like what I had in mind—on the hanger. Not on me.

After picking over the Outerwear racks at Penney’s and Marshall’s and Ross’s it was 5:30, almost dark and bone-chilling cold. Just after starting home I remembered Gordman’s—over a mile away in the opposite direction, and I was in the middle of rush-hour traffic in the most congested part of town.

But this far along in my quest, wouldn’t it be a shame to turn back now? It took some determination to make that long left turn and head back the direction I’d come, but—

Just after walking through the door at Gordmans my eyes fell upon three long racks of Outerwear in all sizes. I tried on five, came down to two. One was canvas with a plush lining, light but warm, three-quarter length, detachable hood in a subdued burgundy color. Practical and versatile, though it almost swallowed me.

The other was deep red, 65 percent wool, black lining, warm but not bulky. Once on, it complemented rather than overwhelmed me.

Con: a little dressier than I was looking for, a little spendier, not quite as versatile.

Pro: the more I looked, the closer it came to perfection.

Moral: when it’s within reach, always reach for perfection.

My life remains imperfect. It will get better and worse by turns. I still struggle with implementing big plans and craving supernatural signs. But for now, a natural, ordinary sign is a kiss from heaven. God sent me a red coat.

I’m Janie B. Cheaney.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: police reform. What efforts are underway now, and how do they differ from changes made last year?

And, students doing virtual internships. Do they have much value? We have a report.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I'm Mary Reichard.

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