The World and Everything in It: July 17, 2025

JENNY ROUGH, HOST:  Good morning!

The Federal Trade Commission chair believes "gender affirming care" should be considered a deceptive and unfair practice for underage patients.

FERGUSON: It is about caring for the most vulnerable among us and protecting them from manipulation, deception, and abuse.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Also California’s environmental laws have made housing shortages even more challenging. We’ll hear how the governor is proposing to fix it.

And a high school biology teacher who’s helping her students think beyond the textbook.

SEDATE: Our kids these days understand coding… and no kid will tell you that code just happens by itself.

BROWN: And Cal Thomas on truth and Harvard’s decision to study conservatives.

ROUGH: It’s Thursday, July 17th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Jenny Rough.

BROWN: And I’m Myrna Brown. Good morning!

ROUGH: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

SOUND: [Israeli airstrike in Syria]

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Israel-Syria » Explosions in Damascus … as Israeli airstrikes targeted the Syrian Defense Ministry Wednesday. Strikes also hit the presidential palace and army headquarters.

The Israeli military said the rare attacks in the heart of Damascus were an effort to protect members of the Druze minority from Syrian government forces. They were also designed to push Islamic militants away from Israel's border.

Syrian officials say the strike killed three people and injured more than 30.

In Washington, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters:

RUBIO: It's complicated, obviously. These are historic, long-time rivalries between different groups in the southwest of Syria, Bedouins, the Druze community, and it led to an unfortunate situation and a misunderstanding, it looks like, between the Israeli side and the Syrian side.

While in Jerusalem…

SOUND: [Druze demonstration]

Members of the Druze minority rallied outside the U.S. embassy. They called on President Trump to cut ties with Syria's President Ahmad al-Sharaa...saying they feared for their safety after clashes with government forces.

DRUZE DEMONSTRATOR: It's not a business, it's not a deal. You cannot make a deal with a person that is a killer, that what he knows is only to kill people, and to kill people that are different than him.

The Syrian government and the Druze minority have struck fragile ceasefire agreements … but many have their doubts as to whether the truce will hold.

Biden mental health probe » Jill Biden’s former chief of staff was in the hot seat Wednesday on Capitol Hill … facing tough questions, which he declined to answer.

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee grilled Anthony Bernal about President Biden’s mental fitness during his time in office. Chairman James Comer says he asked Barnal directly:

COMER: Was Joe Biden fit to exercise the duties of the president? He pled the Fifth.

He said Bernal repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-recrimination … when asked about Biden’s cognitive fitness and the alleged misuse of the autopen.

COMER: We believe there was illegal use of the autopen. We’re going to continue to bring these people in and give them an opportunity to answer questions.

Last week, Biden’s former White House doctor Kevin O’Connor also took the Fifth when questioned by the committee about Biden’s mental fitness.

Criminal deportations » Some African nations are now accepting foreign criminals deported from the U.S. after their home countries refused to take them back. WORLD’s Benjamin Eicher has more.

BENJAMIN EICHER: A plane chartered by the US government touched down in the southern African nation of Eswatini this week. Aboard that plane were five men convicted of violent crimes—including murder and assault against children.

The men were citizens of Vietnam, Laos, Jamaica, Cuba, and Yemen.

U.S. officials say the men are being held in isolated prison units there, awaiting possible relocation with help from the International Organization for Migration.

The flight followed a Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to deport criminals to nations other than their native countries.

Earlier this month, the U.S. sent eight other convicts to South Sudan, and U.S. officials are negotiating with more African nations to accept future deportees.

For WORLD, I’m Benjamin Eicher.

Wholesale inflation cools » Some good news regarding inflation. Just one day after a report suggesting that consumer prices were growing at a faster pace … new numbers on Wednesday showed inflation at the wholesale level was cooler than expected.

The producer price index tracks what businesses pay for goods before they reach store shelves. And that index was flat in June.

Over the past year, wholesale prices rose just 2.3%, while the “core” measure was up 2.6%. Both of those numbers beat expectations.

Some argue that is a sign that tariffs may not be driving up costs overall just yet.

Trump says he's not firing Powell » President Trump is pushing back on reports that he’s considering firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

TRUMP:  He is doing a lousy job, but no, I'm not talking about that. We get, fortunately, we get to make a change in the next, what, eight months or so.

Powell has maintained that the Fed would hold off on cutting interest rates … waiting to see the impact of President Trump’s tariffs on inflation and the economy.

The president has been very unhappy about that, repeatedly blasting Powell, saying he has waited too long to take action.

Trump has said he could still fire Powell if the White House finds legal cause to do so. There is debate about whether he could legally fire the chairman without cause.

I’m Kent Covington. 

Straight ahead: the Federal Trade Commission weighs in on fraud surrounding gender treatment claims. Plus, one teacher’s mission to equip students with the truth about the origin of life.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Thursday, the 17th of July.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Myrna Brown.

JENNY ROUGH, HOST: And I’m Jenny Rough.

First up on The World and Everything in It…can so-called “gender-affirming care” be considered consumer fraud?

BROWN: Families who’ve been told by doctors that cross sex hormones and surgeries would help their children’s mental distress may have been misled. Now, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission says the agency wants to know if it should be considered a deceptive or unfair trade practice. WORLD’s Juliana Chan Erikson has the story.

SCHWEPPE: Please welcome to the stage the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Andrew Ferguson.

JULIANA CHAN ERIKSON: Last week, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission Andrew Ferguson addressed an audience he doesn’t normally interact with: parents and children who say they were harmed by the effects of youth gender medicine.

ANDREW FERGUSON: As chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Congress has entrusted me with protecting citizens from deceptive acts and practices.

The Federal Trade Commission is the government agency responsible for protecting American consumers from scams, fraud, and bad business practices. They’re the ones who warn you about those phony texts about unpaid highway tolls, and hidden fees on your credit card.

Ferguson said he believes pediatric gender medicine could be added to their list of scams, and announced the agency will soon issue a 60 day public comment period to hear from Americans about their experiences.

FERGUSON: And one of the reasons we are here today is [to] examine whether some of the practices in gender-affirming care are deceptive and require greater scrutiny by the FTC.

This is the first time the Commission is looking into the issue. It’s also the third federal agency to use its government authority to challenge the practice of pediatric gender interventions. And Ferguson made clear where he stood on the issue.

FERGUSON: It is about caring for the most vulnerable among us and protecting them from manipulation, deception, and abuse. It is about healing the wounds that proponents of gender-affirming care may have inflicted on our nation's children and parents, and preventing the potential for future harm.

Former pediatric patients Claire Abernathy and Soren Aldaco told the FTC doctors didn’t warn them about the long-term side effects of cross-sex hormones and puberty blocking drugs like Lupron.

ABERNATHY: They didn't tell me that taking cross-sex hormones and undergoing major surgery at 14 years old could leave me with pelvic floor dysfunction and urinary incontinence, problems I have to manage now as a young adult. I'm only 20 years old.

ALDACO: Testosterone also damaged my liver. I've had fatty liver disease since about 14. The Lupron essentially put my body in menopause. I gained weight. My psychiatric issues flared up. I experienced intense hot flashes, which made it really difficult to focus on my seventh grade homework.

Another parent said her daughter committed suicide at age 18. Ilene Syed adopted a male gender identity but also struggled with anxiety, depression, and self-harm. A therapist prescribed testosterone to Ilene but failed to notice that Ilene’s mental condition was deteriorating. Here’s Ilene’s mother Elvira Syed:

SYED: Testosterone can increase aggression, emotional numbness, and suicidal thoughts, especially in a vulnerable unstable teen. But no one stopped to ask if it was safe.

Patients noticed that their doctors had stern words for the parents who didn’t affirm their children’s new gender identity.

SIMON AMAYA PRICE: The pediatrician then asked my dad in front of me, would you like a dead son or a living daughter?

ABERNATHY: I was told that if I didn’t do this, I would probably end up dead.

PRISHA MOSLEY: She asked my parents if they would rather have a dead daughter or a living son. I believed I would die without transition.

A 2019 study by LGBTQ advocacy group The Trevor Project reported that 35 percent of young people who identify as transgender considered suicide in the past year.

But some medical experts say that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones won’t help.

A Swedish study shows that after 10 years, those who had undergone transgender hormones and surgery were 19 times more likely to die of suicide than regular adults. A 2023 study of 315 underage patients who underwent hormone treatments also reported some concerning numbers. Dr. Michael Laidlaw is an endocrinologist:

MICHAEL LAIDLAW: The most common adverse event was actually suicidal ideation on 11 participants. And two kids or young people actually died by suicide. I thought, "That's what we were trying to prevent with this, weren't we?" Apparently not.

Still, some say the Federal Trade Commission is overstepping its boundaries by weighing in on a medical issue. In an open letter, one hundred and forty-nine Federal Trade Commission employees asked Ferguson to cancel the conference because in their words, “the practice of medicine falls under the jurisdiction of state licensing boards, not the FTC.”

Ferguson disagrees.

FERGUSON: The FTC is the federal government's guardian against false and deceptive health claims. We have brought dozens of enforcement actions against false and misleading health claims from shyster snake oil salesmen to powerful pharmaceutical companies.

A few hours after Ferguson made the announcement, a representative from the Department of Justice had an announcement of its own. The department had issued subpoenas to nearly 20 gender clinics—making it the fourth federal agency to take action against pediatric gender medicine.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Juliana Chan Erikson in Washington.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Up next…housing versus environmentalism.

Last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill to reform the state’s landmark environmental law… one that critics blame for slowing construction of everything from housing to industry hubs.

JENNY ROUGH, HOST: Some see the change as a boon to the housing market… others see it as the governor trying to appear more moderate ahead of a bid for the presidency. WORLD’s Mary Muncy reports.

STEPHEN ANASTASIA: There just isn't that many houses available.

MARY MUNCY: Stephen Anastasia and his wife, Janette, have been trying to buy or build a house in Central California for almost three years. They’ve gone through a couple of different options.

JANETTE ANASTASIA: Through some mutual friends, we were able to be in a private offer for a house. It was, it was a hoarder situation.

They helped clean it out a little and got a good look at the property. It was a barn house on five acres.

STEPHEN ANASTASIA: And no improvements to the property so it's just bare property. And of course, the whole inside of the house is filled with stuff.

After a few weeks, the sellers decided to see if they could get more than the Anastasias offered.

STEPHEN ANASTASIA: And it went for over $500,000.

Stephen, Janette, and their three kids are once again looking. In the meantime, they’re living in a parsonage at reduced rent. But the church is considering selling the building, so they may not have housing for long.

STEPHEN ANASTASIA: …and then we have nowhere to go.

Since 2000, the price of mid-tier homes in California has nearly quadrupled… So last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom approved a bill meant to streamline homebuilding. Louis Mirante works on housing policy with the Bay Area Council.

LOUIS MIRANTE: The California Environmental Quality Act, better, probably better known as CEQA, has been a major barrier to local governments approving housing projects, to developers being able to entitle housing projects.

In 1970, then-California Governor Ronald Reagan enacted CEQA… It’s based on a federal law requiring federal agencies to create environmental impact statements before starting a project. When Reagan signed it, CEQA only applied to state and local agencies… but courts later expanded it to include private projects as well.

MIRANTE: That was when all these troubles really started.

The court’s expansion allowed just about any Californian to ask for an environmental impact review… That means disgruntled neighbors could ask for a review of a new industrial complex, or competitors could threaten to sue a business’s expansion project.

Mirante says that has led to major slowdowns.

MIRANTE: For example, I'm familiar with a project in San Francisco that was on a vacant parking lot just a couple blocks away from some of the best transit and some of the best jobs in the world.

It would have created almost 500 units. Twenty percent of them were scheduled to be affordable housing.

MIRANTE: But that project was delayed by several years of CEQA litigation, and the developer was required to produce two documents, both of which were in excess of 1000 pages each, of environmental analysis.

Delays like that can kill a project… especially for smaller developers. So, last month, Governor Newsom signed a bill that creates exceptions to CEQA… the biggest of which are for what’s known as infill housing… that’s housing within urban areas already zoned for residential use.

Mirante says the reform will go a long way toward filling the housing gap in California… but not everyone is so sure.

RUSSELL JOHNSON: It only affects a very slim portion of projects.

Russell Johnson works with Associated Builders and Contractors.

JOHNSON: It's not a blanket approval. It has to meet the definition of urban and has to meet the definition of infill has to be less than 85 feet. 

And there are more… But if a site does meet the requirements, a developer can bypass CEQA.

JOHNSON: And it's a lot easier than having the potential for the CEQA lawsuit hanging out there.

The threat of a lawsuit can kill a project just as quickly as an actual case.

Johnson says the legislation is a necessary reform to CEQA… but it won’t change much about the housing market in California… because there are still so many other regulations and permitting requirements.

JOHNSON: Life in California, nothing is easy, which is why we're more expensive than many of the states that are out there.

But Dan Silver with the Endangered Habitats League says those requirements are there to protect nature.

DAN SILVER: There been projects that were delayed, yes, but generally for very good reasons.

Silver pointed to a study by CEQA Works that says only about two percent of projects face CEQA litigation.

SILVER: Just this year, my organization and others filed CEQA lawsuit on a project that was in very important wild lands, and we were concerned about endangered species.

After a year or so, the developer agreed to shrink the project’s footprint while upping the number of housing units.

SILVER: CEQA can produce better outcomes for both the environment and for housing. It's not anti-housing. CEQA is better planning.

Governor Newsom’s record on environmental policies has been a mixed bag. He’s leaned mostly in one direction…committed to habitat restoration and particularly hard on things he believes cause climate change. But his CEQA reform bill seems to be one more move in the other direction. Silver thinks that this bill is a bid to appear more moderate ahead of the 2028 presidential election.

SILVER: He has definitely been a driving force behind these attacks on CEQA and an anti-regulatory agenda.

Silver is all for smart regulation that protects habitats… but back in Central California, Stephen and Janette Anastasia say California’s restrictions go too far.

They started looking to build when they couldn’t buy… but permit requirements and safety regulations put it out of their price range.

The reform wouldn’t help people like them directly… It’s really meant to encourage large-scale projects… but it may increase supply and that could eventually bring costs down in their area. So for now, they’re stuck in a waiting game.

STEPHEN ANASTASIA: There's so many layers to it. It's not like, you know, if there's a one size fits all solution, it's, you know, and this is something that California has basically set itself up for, for many, many years.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Mary Muncy.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Speed humps…speed cameras…speed traps… Seems authorities will use whatever it takes to keep “lead foot” law breakers from speeding.

The United Arab Emirates is taking a different approach…

SOUND: [Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony]

That’s the sound of drivers on the E-84 in the UAE playing Beethoven’s “Ode To Joy”…as they drive over road rumble strips…you know, those grooved, raised patterns in the pavement designed to help us “slow our roll?”

When you combine those grooves with the speed of the vehicle, you can make a joyful sound. Here’s the catch…when the rubber hits the road, it needs to be going around 60 mph to get the tune “just right.”

Perhaps it's a good thing Beethoven isn’t around to hear it…

It’s The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Thursday, July 17th.  Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Myrna Brown.

JENNY ROUGH, HOST: And I’m Jenny Rough.

One hundred years ago, the trial of the century took place in a small southern town: The State of Tennessee versus John Thomas Scopes. A Tennessee state law prohibited the teaching of evolution in schools. John Scopes was put on trial for violating that law.

BROWN: We’ve slated an episode about the Scopes trial for a special weekend edition of The World and Everything in It in partnership with our Doubletake series.

But today, we’ll hear from a current biology teacher … and from a lawyer. They’ll talk about the landmines at play when teaching evolution in the classroom today.

And Jenny, you bring us the story.

KRISTIN SEDATE: Where did I come from? Where am I going? What is my purpose? How should I live? And what is truth?

ROUGH: Those are the five worldview questions Kristin Sedate asks her high school students in biology class.

Over the years, she’s taught in both public schools and private Christian schools. In Christian schools, she can present the two origins stories—creation and evolution —side by side. Then go through the questions.

SEDATE: How does a Christian worldview answer those five questions and how does an evolutionary worldview answer those five questions?

But in public schools, it requires a lot more finagling. She says she can’t teach about creation.

SEDATE: Your hands are pretty much tied in the public schools. You’re very tied to the curriculum. You’re very tied to the textbook.

That’s because of the way the law has, well, evolved over the years! In the 1920s, a handful of states passed laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution. But in 1968, the Supreme Court ruled that such laws violate the establishment clause of the Constitution.

Then—on similar grounds—a 1987 Supreme Court case struck down a Louisiana law that required the teaching of creation science alongside evolution.

So how does a standard biology textbook today present evolution?

SEDATE: It will say the theory of evolution, but it is absolutely presented as fact.

The curriculum is based largely on the work of Charles Darwin. With the discovery of genetics, scientists added some upgrades over the years. Now it’s known as Neo-Darwinism.

But the theory has weaknesses. Like how life arose from non-life or the gap that would explain how asexual organisms that replicate became male and female life forms that sexually reproduce.

SEDATE: Mitosis and meiosis are two separate processes.

And the fact that evolution is linear, but life is not.

SEDATE: Bones cannot exist without blood. But blood is made in the bones.

Sedate also likes to talk to her students about the complexity of DNA.

SEDATE: Our kids these days understand coding. They understand how precise coding has to be. And no kid will tell you that code just happens by itself, that it can just write itself. They understand design. They understand intelligent thought.

Then there’s the lack of transitional forms in the fossil record, combined with what’s known as the Cambrian explosion.

SEDATE: We have no fossil record, no fossil record, no fossil record, and all this strata, and then all of the sudden, you see all these fossils. And so again, to me, I’m like, that shows life came to be at this certain point.

When she teaches, Sedate feels convicted to raise these points. But for biology teachers like her, discussing evolution’s problems gets tricky in public school classrooms.

SEDATE: You can absolutely lose your job and be blackballed as far as being hired somewhere else, that kind of thing.

Many of these cases require the assistance of an expert.

CASEY LUSKIN: I’ve been a California licensed attorney since 2005.

Casey Luskin is a lawyer and a geologist with the Discovery Institute. His law practice falls almost exclusively within the realm of academic freedom. He advises teachers:

LUSKIN: On how to teach evolution objectively without getting into legal trouble. It’s a pretty weird, niche area.

The Discovery Institute where Luskin works promotes the idea that many aspects in the universe are explained by an intelligent cause rather than undirected natural selection.

Luskin says the term “intelligent designer” doesn’t necessarily mean the Christian God. But in 2005, a federal district court found it’s unconstitutional to teach intelligent design in public schools—claiming it is a form of creationism.

But Luskin says teachers aren’t teaching creationism.

LUSKIN: We’re talking about teaching scientific critiques of evolution. Simply peer reviewed science that challenges some of the evidence that might be in the textbook.

In fact, in the 1987 Supreme Court case, the Court made a point to note that teaching scientific critiques of prevailing theories could be done as long as it has a clear secular intent.

LUSKIN: And so when a teacher is doing that they are on very firm legal ground.

Even so, teachers who poke holes in Neo-Darwinism get pushback. Luskin says teachers have very little academic freedom.

LUSKIN: So if a school board does not want you to teach X, Y, or Z, even if it's legal, even if there's nothing unconstitutional with doing that, the school board has the right basically to exercise very tight control over what teachers teach in the classroom.

In response, some states have passed academic freedom bills.

LUSKIN: This is legislation that protects the rights of teachers to teach controversial scientific topics, like evolution or human cloning.

When Sedate taught in private Christian schools, she found more flexibility. She appreciated the fact that the textbook presented quite a bit of information about evolution.

SEDATE: Anyone in Christian education would agree that we need to understand what the theory of evolution is, what it says so students can learn about it.

But it also presented the Christian worldview of creation. And Sedate covers the fact that there’s challenging questions within the Genesis account, too.

SEDATE: A God that we can’t see with our eyes that created the world just by speaking. I understand that doesn’t make sense either.

And although she believes in a six-day creation, she explains that Christians may disagree on the details and the timing of the Genesis account.

SEDATE: But Genesis makes it clear that there is an all-powerful God who is the designer and creator of the world and the life that we see in that world.

Sedate says when schools allow both theories to be taught together, it leads to actual learning—giving students the opportunity to weigh the pros and cons of both explanations.

Sedate says everybody puts his or her faith in something. Students who believe nature speaks to a designer have an uphill battle.

SEDATE: Unfortunately our science classrooms are geared these days, especially at institutions of higher learning, would tell them that they’re less than, that they’re foolish, that they’re not intelligent if they believe in creation.

But Sedate inspires her kids to not get discouraged.

SEDATE: I tell them they can be great scientists and be creationists. They can be just as great of a scientist, maybe even greater because they’re willing to look at things critically and really consider the facts.

It’s something Sedate says young creationist scientists need to hear.

JENNY ROUGH, HOST: Today is Thursday, July 17th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Jenny Rough.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Up next: Conservative Roots.

Commentator Cal Thomas says it took federal funding cut threats for Harvard University to get serious about once again pursuing its original religious and conservative foundation.

But are they going about it the right way? Here’s Cal.

CAL THOMAS: The Wall Street Journal reports that leaders of Harvard University are discussing whether to create a center for conservative scholarship. It would mirror the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California. That the discussion is taking place at all is a tacit admission that Harvard has been excluding conservative thought from its curriculum, not to mention most of its professors who toe the liberal line and teach their students to do the same.

Like the other old Ivy League schools, Harvard once had a religious and conservative foundation. Founded by Puritans in 1636, Harvard had its roots in the Puritan worldview and way of life. Its stated purpose was to train ministers and prepare students for community and civic leadership. By the mid-18th century, Harvard had evolved into an increasingly secular institution, broadening its curriculum to include a more liberal arts education and establishing a research branch. While it still has a Divinity School, that too is liberal in its theology and more aligned with a liberal political agenda.

Nathan Pusey was Harvard’s 24th president—serving in that role from 1953 till 1971. He once said: “The finest fruit of serious learning should be the ability to speak the word God without reserve or embarrassment.” Given what we’ve seen in recent months on its campus it would appear that God has become an embarrassment, unless His name is used as a blasphemy.

The idea that there should be a separate institution to “study” conservatism will be an affront to some conservatives. It sounds like a form of “separate but equal.” Are conservatives considered such a rare species at Harvard that their way of thinking must be studied in order to be understood? Are they a life form from another planet that could infect others if not kept away from “normal” people? Will students who study conservatism be required to wear identification badges or arm bands to identify them to liberal students and liberal professors so as to avoid possible “contamination”? Will this new branch of studies produce a conservative commencement speaker instead of the continuing stream of liberal speakers at graduation?

Over the years there have been many conservative intellectuals whose ideas and policies have demonstrated far more positive results than secular liberalism. Such thoughts and history should be incorporated into mainstream learning and not put at the “back of the bus.”

One of the towering conservative intellectuals of the 20th century was the late William F. Buckley Jr. While a Yale man himself, he famously said this about Harvard: “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.” Imagine what he might say now given all that has transpired at the university with its anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

I guess it’s better to have a place where conservative thought can be studied and students exposed to a different way of thinking than to have nothing at all, but even better to have that line of thinking taught alongside liberal thought. That would give conservative thought and conservative thinkers the recognition they deserve, along with examination of why conservative economic, social and foreign policy ideas have produced mostly better results than secular liberalism.

I’m Cal Thomas.

JENNY ROUGH, HOST: Tomorrow: Culture Friday with Katie McCoy. And, Collin Garbarino reviews the latest Smurfs movie. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Jenny Rough.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

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