The World and Everything in It - November 3, 2021

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

Virginia votes for a new governor and Republicans strategize in South Carolina. We’ll talk about it.

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

Also World Tour.

Plus an alternative school that’s making old ideas new.

And WORLD commentator Janie B. Cheaney on your work as a high and holy calling.

REICHARD: It’s Wednesday, November 3rd. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

REICHARD: Now the news with Kent Covington.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Youngkin wins Va. gubernatorial election » Virginia has elected a Republican governor for the first time since 2009. Glenn Youngkin defeated Democratic candidate and former governor, Terry McAuliffe Tuesday. It was a race that went down to the wire. McAuliffe told supporters last night that he was not ready to concede.

MCAULIFFE: Gonna to have to wait a little while longer than we had hoped. We’re going to wait for every vote to be counted and that’s how our democracy works. 

News outlets began calling the race a little before 1 a.m. Eastern Time with about 95 percent of the votes counted. At that point, Youngkin held a lead of nearly 3 percentage points.

Voters in New Jersey also went to the polls to elect their next governor. As of early this morning, that race was too close to call. Incumbent Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy was trailing GOP challenger Jack Ciattarelli by less than 1 point. That was with 80 percent of the votes counted.

And in New York City, voters elected Democrat Eric Adams as their next mayor.

CDC authorizes Pfizer shots for young children » The CDC has officially signed off on kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky made the final call just hours after a panel of advisers voted to recommend the shots for young kids.

Walensky said the risk of severe illness or death from COVID-19 remains low for young children but not low enough.

WALENSKY: Still, the risk is too high and too devastating for our children, and far higher than for many other diseases for which we vaccinate children.

The Pfizer shots are already in use for kids 12 and up. It is the only COVID vaccine approved for minors, though Moderna and Johnson & Johnson are also seeking authorization.

The kid-size Pfizer doses began shipping nationwide in advance of Tuesday’s decision. In some places, those shots are available as of today.

Migrant deaths along southern border shatters record » The Border Patrol is reporting a record number of migrant deaths along the southern border. WORLD’s Kristen Flavin reports.

KRISTEN FLAVIN, REPORTER: Officials say 557 migrants died along the border in the 2021 fiscal year. That more than doubled the number of fatalities the previous year. And it easily topped the previous record of 492 deaths in 2005.

So far this year, officials have seen what Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas called an “unprecedented” surge of traffic at the border.

National Border Patrol Council President, Brandon Judd said more traffic is leading to more deaths. And he added—quote—“The only way it stops is if you put policies in place that don’t incentivize illegal immigration.”

The causes of migrant deaths include exposure to elements, drownings in the Rio Grande, and falling while trying to climb border barriers. Many have also died in human smuggling operations gone wrong.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

Yahoo pulls out of China » Tech giant Yahoo said Tuesday that it is pulling out of China. The company said it’s getting tougher to operate in the communist country.

China's digital censorship had already blocked many of the company's services. But recent government moves to expand its control over tech companies generally may have been the last straw for Yahoo.

The company’s move comes as the American and Chinese governments feud over technology and trade.

Yahoo is the latest foreign tech company to exit China. Google gave up several years ago, and Microsoft’s professional networking platform LinkedIn said last month it would shutter its Chinese site.

At least 7 killed in Kabul hospital bombing » A bombing at a hospital in Afghanistan killed at least 23 people on Tuesday. WORLD’s Leigh Jones has that story.

LEIGH JONES, REPORTER: Taliban officials blame ISIS militants for setting off two explosions at a military hospital in Kabul. The first blast happened at the hospital’s entrance. Taliban security forces then opened fire against the militants.

Taliban officials said the victims included civilians and guards. A spokesman said five attackers were also killed, and the attack was over within 15 minutes.

The spokesman also said guards stopped the attackers from entering the hospital, thwarting ISIS plans to target medical staff and patients.

ISIS has stepped up its terror campaign since the Taliban took over the country. In recent weeks, militants have carried out a series of bombing and shooting attacks.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Leigh Jones.

Braves defeat Astros to win World Series

Major League Baseball has a new champion. The Atlanta Braves shut out the Astros in Houston in game-6 by a score of 7-to-nothing to win the World Series.

Max Fried pitched 6 scoreless innings, picking up the win for Atlanta. Jorge Soler, Dansby Swanson, and Freddie Freeman homered for the Braves. Soler was named World Series MVP. He tallied 6 hits and 3 home runs during the 6-game series.

This was the Braves’ first appearance in the Fall Classic since 1999 … and their first World Series victory since 1995.

I’m Kent Covington. Straight ahead: Republicans prep for the forthcoming midterm battle.

Plus, serving God through one of the dirtiest jobs in history.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Wednesday the 3rd of November, 2021.

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

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Up first: Republicans get together in South Carolina to chart a course to victory.

Some GOP lawmakers and other party leaders converged on Myrtle Beach over the weekend to talk strategy. They’re hoping to retake control of Congress next year and to reclaim the White House in 2024.

And Florida Senator Rick Scott told South Carolina Republicans that they’re well positioned to make that happen.

SCOTT: You have a well-run party. Yeah, you should feel good!

Organizers described the Republican gathering as the party’s largest political training event.

REICHARD: Joining us now to talk about GOP prospects for next year and beyond is Matt Klink. He is a Republican political strategist and president of his own consultancy—Klink Campaigns. Matt, good morning!

MATT KLINK, GUEST: Good morning. How are you?

REICHARD:  Let me start with the biggest news of the day in the political world: Glenn Youngkin will be the next governor of Virginia.

Now a lot of people were looking at this race as a possible bellwether ahead of next year’s midterms. What do you think the Virginia race tells us, if anything, about 2022?

KLINK: Virginia is very important for 2022 and there are parallels back to 2009 to 2010. It indicates that the country is not buying what President Joe Biden is trying to sell, that there is a lot of frustration, and that the suburbs are moving away from the Democrats, and that a message of parents should have a role in their children's education. And we don't need to spend, you know, X umpteen trillion dollars and we shouldn't have open borders does resonate. And Glenn Younkin, who literally came out of nowhere, upset a well-established and entrenched Democratic politician, which should send shivers through any long term incumbent, particularly a Democrat running in 2022.

REICHARD: At last weekend’s conference, there was obviously a lot of talk about what it will take for Republicans to chart a course to victory next year. Matt, what does that path to victory look like for the GOP? How do they reclaim majorities in Congress?

KLINK: Well, first and foremost, the Democrats are doing everything that they possibly can to help the Republicans make 2022 a reality in terms of recapturing both houses of Congress. But the second part is—and here's where it's a careful dance for Republicans—Donald Trump got 74 million votes, the most votes of any Republican presidential candidate ever. And what I think you saw Glen Younkin do in Virginia was he hugged close to President Trump, because we know we need that base vote, but then he broadened his appeal to recapture some of those suburban voters by talking about issues that they cared about. And nothing hits home more closely than public education. And across the United States, the teachers union’s power has run rampant. Our kids aren't learning. They're being taught things that are not essential to them as productive Americans on a going forward basis. And just really, again, opportunities abound to hug the good parts of President Trump and to distance and focus on local issues which are really gonna be a major point of difference between Republicans and Democrats in 2022.

REICHARD: We know Donald Trump may very well run again for president, but let’s suppose he does not. Let’s talk about a few possible GOP presidential contenders to watch.

Last weekend’s political action conference was held in South Carolina, Sen. Tim Scott’s home state. He was kind of coy when asked if he’s considering a run for president. How would you size up Tim Scott as a contender for the nomination?

KLINK: Tim Scott would be a very powerful representative for the Republican Party if he decides to run. He's already said he's not going to run for reelection again to the United States Senate. But he obviously has not ruled out running for president. Obviously African American, United States senator, small business owner. He can talk about the struggles that hard working men and women face around the dinner table. But he also has an international perspective on politics and world events. He would be very powerful.

We also, though, can't forget South Carolina's former governor, Nikki Haley, who also is determined to throw her hat into the ring. And again, she presents a really interesting picture for a Republican nominee. Obviously female of South Asian descent, has Executive Office experience running for governor, extremely well-spoken, gets the international issues. So two from the state of South Carolina.

Interesting enough, you may have two Scotts as well, because you have former governor, now Senator Rick Scott from Florida who faces a challenging re-election in 2022. But if he wins, which is highly probable, he gets essentially a free ride to run for president in 2024 because even if he were to lose, he still has four more years left on his Senate seat. But he is a very large business owner. He has Executive Office experience in a very multicultural, diverse state. He knows what it takes to run and win in a competitive environment.

So, we have two South Carolinians and two Scotts that are at the front of that list. DeSantis, governor of Florida. He has made great hay for himself by positioning himself as the anti- de Blasio, Andrew Cuomo, Governor Gavin Newsom of California. They haven't struggled with mask mandates that have so burdened other coastal cities like California, where I live, and New York. You know, I think the field is going to be long and deep, and a lot of different people are going to throw their hats in. And it's that election is a lifetime away, but Republicans will have lots of choices, with or without Donald Trump deciding to run again.

REICHARD: Okay, so Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Rick Scott, and Ron DeSantis...Now let’s talk about the former vice president of the United States, Mike Pence. You’d think as the most recent Republican vice president, he’d be a top contender for the nomination. But he lost favor with many Trump supporters when he presided over certifying the presidential vote. Matt, do you think he can overcome that?

KLINK: So, the big challenge for Mike Pence is that, you're right, he did lose favor with some of the Trump supporters. But he was also a loyal Trump follower for four years as his vice president, which I would argue is probably the most difficult job in politics. He has a very strong following among Christian conservatives. He's run a talk radio show. He's incredibly well-spoken. I just think that being a former vice president, it's a tough office to run for president from. Obviously Joe Biden was able to surmount that. But I just think that there are more dynamic, younger candidates in the race. And if Republicans were smart, I think that they should choose a high energy, middle-aged candidate, someone who looks toward the future, not harkens back on the past.

REICHARD: Former Republican National Committee chairman Reince Preibus said that he thinks the odds of Donald Trump running again are close to 100 percent. What do you think? Do you see any possible reasons why Trump might not run again?

KLINK: I agree with Reince. I think that Donald Trump does still have a taste in his mouth for being president. I think that he is clearly still shaken by the loss in 2020 to Joe Biden in what arguably will go down in history as one of the most unique elections ever—and I'm not talking about voter fraud or anything like that—just with all the law changes because of the pandemic and things of that nature. I think that Donald Trump has to believe that square up, head to head, he could beat Joe Biden in a normal election.

Look, the challenge that he faces right now, though, is being president comes with a ton of accolades and praise, but not a day goes by when somebody doesn't criticize you. And Donald Trump got the worst of that with, you know, the majority 95% plus of all media stories during his presidency were viewed as negative. The Democratic Russian hoax that was perpetuated for four years, that really cast a pall over his presidency. Part of me says, why would he want the hassle? He could be Kingmaker from behind the scenes. He has a lot of money that he could direct toward candidates. He could rebuild the party in his image, the conservative populist image. But the men and women who run for president, they love being in the spotlight. So it would not surprise me if he were to run again. He's doing everything I would expect a potential candidate to do in terms of staying relevant, making sure he comments on the pressing issues of the day. But, you know, look, he got 74 million votes, but the Democrats brought out 81 million votes. So, again, he's polarizing, so there are pluses, but there are also some pretty significant minuses for Donald Trump to run for reelection.

REICHARD: Final question and this is just for fun, Matt: in one sentence, can you describe this political era we are in right now?

KLINK: This political era we're in right now is a bizarro universe. Up is down, down is up, right is wrong, which makes it so much fun for people who are political professionals, but probably frustrating to voters. And I'm sorry, that was probably a compound sentence. [laughs]

REICHARD: Matt Klink with Klink Campaigns has been our guest. Matt, thanks so much!

KLINK: Thank you so much for having me.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: a WORLD Tour special report on the coup in Sudan. Here’s our reporter in Africa, Onize Ohikere.

AUDIO: [Sounds of protests]

ONIZE OHIKERE, REPORTER: Thousands of people turned out in major cities across Sudan over the weekend to protest last week’s coup. They carried signs and shouted “No, no to military rule!”

Police responded with force, firing tear gas and live rounds. Medics reported at least three protesters died and more than 100 suffered injuries. The Central Committee of Sudan's Doctors say at least 12 people have died since the October 25th military takeover.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was among many world leaders who condemned the violence.

GUTERRES: I want to reaffirm my strong condemnation of the coup, and the need to reestablish the transition system that was in place. I urge the military to show restraint and not to create any more victims. People must be allowed to demonstrate peacefully.

Following the coup, the African Union voted to suspend Sudan's membership. It called the military takeover “unconstitutional.” Both the World Bank and the United States froze aid to the country.

Jonas Horner is a senior analyst for Sudan at the International Crisis Group. He says the swift response caught Sudan’s military leaders by surprise.

HORNER: The international community has been mightily disapproving of this coup, and that opprobrium has in many ways taken both the coup makers in Sudan and some of their allies aback and that I think reflects the archetypal way that so many have seen Sudan’s transition as a beacon, as an inspiration and how much disappointment there has been that this coup has wound things back considerably by perhaps a couple of years.

Sudan’s military leaders helped topple longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir two years ago. The military set up a transitional government and planned to hand over control to a civilian leader on November 17th.

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan says his decision to dissolve the government is not a coup.

BURHAN: [Man speaking Arabic]

In a press conference last week, Burhan promised he would form a new government soon. But he also said the military would not hold elections until at least July 2023.

Analysts say even that seems unlikely. Sudan’s military takeover follows a worrisome trend in several African countries. Military leaders in Mali staged a coup there in May. And in Guinea, military officers toppled longtime President Alpha Condé last month.

In all three countries, the military has used mismanagement, corruption, and poverty as justification for its takeover. Analysts say until those problems are solved, democracy will remain under threat.

Alex de Waal is executive director of the World Peace Foundation. He says Sudan’s latest upheaval may not last long.

WAAL: It's quite possible that this coup could actually unravel. It doesn’t command any kind of popular assent, it doesn't have even the sympathies of anyone in a spectrum of civilian politics. And the military could find themselves very isolated and forced to step back.

Jonas Horner agrees.

HORNER: I think it will be hard for the military to wash away the stain of this coup, and the concern also is that any accord is insufficiently tested on the street — the street does have its own voice, it’s not always cohesive but it really does know what it wants out of the military, which is to see it step aside more readily, to be a much smaller part of this transition and for civilians really to take the lead.

That’s it for this week’s World Tour. Reporting for WORLD, I’m Onize Ohikere in Abuja, Nigeria.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Distracted driving as you surely know is a major problem: drivers’ eyes need to be on the road—not on their phones. Many states have tried to curb that dangerous habit with hands-free laws.

Not just in the United States, also in Canada.

Case in point: Officers near Toronto spotted a man driving with both hands—so they thought—on his cell phone.

So they pulled him over, did a little police work, and discovered it wasn’t a cell phone at all. It was a flute. The driver had both hands on a flute and he’d been playing the flute while driving. And not from memory. He was reading sheet music from an iPad. Not even kidding.

REICHARD: Guess he’s in real treble now!

EICHER: Police posted a picture of the flute online with the hashtag “#FlutesAndDrivingDontMix.”

Flautist flouts hands-free law with flute.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Wednesday, November 3rd. You’re listening to WORLD Radio and we’re so glad you are! 

Good morning. I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. Coming next on The World and Everything in It: a return to the old schoolhouse.

One-room schoolhouses were a staple of education in the past—think Little House on the Prairie, maybe?

A woman in Pennsylvania is one of a growing number of educators trying to bring them back—along with new approaches to education. 

WORLD’s Josh Schumacher has the story.

LEEVER: Lord, thank You for this chance to gather and to be together and learn...

JOSH SCHUMACHER, REPORTER: Rozanna Leever begins her teaching day with prayer. She teaches in a little, red, one-room schoolhouse just outside Morgantown, Pennsylvania. It was where generations of Amish children received their primary education, before some local churches converted it into a visitor center.

Now, Rozanna and her husband, Steven, have turned it back into a school. The Leevers are self-described lifelong educators. For years, they worked in the public school system. Standing outside the schoolhouse, Steven explains why they decided to start this school.

STEPHEN: We kind of have the traditional school, sitting in rows. Listen, and that works for some kids, but it doesn't work for a lot of kids.

And that traditional system can lead to questionable incentives for educators.

STEPHEN: And what happens invariably, is you address the kids that are most likely to move and make your scores look good. And you don't really worry about those that aren't going to get there.

Of course not all schools are that way. The Leevers got a chance to work at two schools—in Qatar and Dubai—that had a better approach.

STEPHEN: And so over there, we were able to focus on how do you really get kids to move? How do you really get them to engage and to become very, very focused on their own learning. So and it was really successful.

They returned to the United States with some great ideas, but faced resistance implementing their ideas in the public school system. That’s when this schoolhouse came up for sale.

STEPHEN: And we said, why don't we just implement everything here? And so what you will see in here is a push away from grades. And it's all on learning habits and it's very engaging, a lot of project-based work.

The students’ first major subject of the day is science. They’re learning about water conservation and the decisions local communities have to make about how they choose to distribute their local water supply.

Rozanna begins by breaking them up into three teams. Each team rotates through three different stations. Each one represents a different type of water supply situation people face around the world.

The first station has only dirty water available, and the students have to try to fill up a bottle—representing how much water their hypothetical population actually gets for consumption—with that dirty water.

But to get their dirty water, they have to carry a heavy object across the room so that they can bring it back to their population bottle. This is meant to simulate the long distances many people must hike for water that’s barely potable.

Before moving on to the next station, the students jot down their observations.

SCHUMACHER: What’d you guys learn from this?
KID 1: Our population didn’t get enough water.
KID 2: Basically it’s saying that water’s scarce.

The second station illustrates when a community has an abundance of water, but here the students have to overcome a different set of challenges. They’ve got two water sources in front of them: a “Resources” bottle and a “Potential” bottle.

KID 2: This is all you need to do: pour that in there, and that in there.
KID 1: Yeah, this is so easy.

Perhaps it’s not as easy as they think. 

ROZANNA: Were you supposed to pour from the “Resources” or the “Potential”?
KID 1: The “Resources” is for them.
KID 3: The “Potential.”
KID 2: (Reading) “Fill the need cup from your ‘Resources.’” Oops.

The last station forces the students to ration their water supply across three different categories: humans, agriculture, and industry. They then must list how they ration out their supply before pouring it into their population bottle. 

ROZANNA: You have a chart with seven “Ag.” boxes, two “Industrial,” and one “Human.” You’re transferring the water from the “Resource” jug. These are your “Needs” cups. So you need to decide, because that’s not going to be quite enough water to fill them all up. So you do need to decide.

Again, this group runs into a bit of difficulty. They struggle to figure out how exactly to distribute their water supply before time runs out.

KID 3: We don’t need “Industrial!”
KID 1: Yes we do!
KID 3: ‘Cause “Industrial”… (groans)
KID 1: Give me “Human.”

SOUND: [Water pouring]

ROZANNA: Time’s up!

ROZANNA: How’d your population bottle do? Lift it up.
KID 2: Not good.
ROZANNA: Aww, man. Well, let’s reflect on that...

The point of this exercise isn't to get it right the first time, but instead to help them learn something they didn’t know before. See, the grade isn't what matters here.

MR. LEEVER: And so while we're giving grades, we have completely removed any emphasis from the grade, we put all of our emphasis on growth.

The students move on to an economics lesson, then to lunch, then to math and language arts. Breaks are spread liberally throughout the day so the kids can work out their energy. And once the clock hits 3, they head off.

For Rozanna, this teaching process isn’t set in stone.

ROZANNA: It's a laboratory school. So that means I'm still learning as well. And this is my lab that I will retain and repeat a lot of what I do, but there will be things that I say nope, not doing that again. And that we have to be willing to know that as an educator, too.

But the big question remains...is this approach actually going to work? Rozanna Leever says she’ll find out at the end of the year.

ROZANNA: I am assessing these students at the beginning of the year, and at the end with a standardized test called Map, which is fantastic. It will determine—numerically—how successful I am and how successful they are at growing their learning, right?  I know it's working really, really well. But we'll know for sure, a year from now.
SCHUMACHER: What if you’re wrong?
ROZANNA: Well, and that's the rub with education, the stakes are high. You have these kids, you know, academic future in your hands. I know, these students will grow academically, no problem. But whether I'm wrong on all the other fronts, I just can't see how individualized attention, hands on learning, going on these great field trips together. Bonding with like minded parents and families could ever be wrong, you know. So what if I'm wrong? That would be tragic and awful, but I just can't imagine that the alternatives could be any better.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Josh Schumacher in Morgantown, PA.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Wednesday, November 3rd. 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. No matter whether you sweep the floors or manage people who do, the Bible says do it all in service to the Lord. Here’s WORLD commentator Janie B. Cheaney.

JANIE B. CHEANEY, COMMENTATOR: The opening chapters of 1 Chronicles are not the most engaging text. Chronicles includes more genealogy than the tongue-stumbling “begat” chapters of Genesis. A lot more. Nine chapters’ worth. That doesn’t mean that the genealogies fall outside the “useful for teaching, correcting, and training in righteousness” purpose of the Scriptures, only that sometimes you have to look harder for the usefulness.

Here's what I found in my latest reading. Speaking of the clans and houses of Levi, the Chronicler writes, “. . . besides their kinsmen, heads of their fathers’ houses, 1,760 mighty men for the work of the service of the house of God.” (1 Chron. 9:13)

Elsewhere in the historical records of Israel, “Mighty men” refers exclusively to warriors. This one killed 300 men, that one led a squad through the water tunnels to take Jerusalem, the other one killed a Cushite giant 12 feet tall. And here’s a great trivia question: “Who was the brother of Lahmi, whom Elhanan the Son of Jair struck down in the Philistine Wars of King David?” Answer: Goliath. (1 Chron. 20:5.) I won a Bible trivia game—against a very competitive pastor—with that one.

But the mighty men of the tribe of Levi had one purpose, and that was to serve first the tabernacle, later the temple. What do almost 2,000 men do every day to maintain the house of the Lord? Some guarded the gates on rotation. Some were entrusted with baking flat cakes for the Table of Presence. Some had charge of the utensils used for butchering, carving, and sacrificing. Though the text doesn’t mention it, there must have been a lot of blood to clean up, and waste to cart away, and bones to burn outside the camp. This could have been one of Mike Rowe’s dirtiest jobs in history.

The thing about dirty jobs is, they are necessary. Someone has to do them, even in the holiest places.

Who doesn’t want to be “mighty”? Whatever we’re good at, whatever our rank or position, we want to stand out. Here is an example of men who didn’t stand out, except in a little-read portion of Scripture where the writer bothered to name them. They were gate-keepers, floor-scrubbers, tile-sweepers, brass-polishers, bread-bakers, trash-haulers. What distinguished them was where they did it: in the house of God.

And where is the house of God today? In us, and among us, and with us. Dirt-diggers, diaper-changers, meal-planners, wage-earners. We’re told that work matters, and it should matter especially to a Christian. We’re told to work heartily as unto the Lord, and whatever our hands find to do, do it with all our might. But we’re not often told that our names are being recorded in the ranks of the mighty.

It must be true, though; in the Lord’s service, every act is mighty.

I’m Janie B. Cheaney.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: tensions with Turkey. We’ll tell you why that country’s geopolitical moves have the West worried.

And, how God used a man on a horse to bring Christianity to the American frontier and revival to a young nation.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

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

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