How different things used to be.

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How different things used to be.

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Before the Stent, a Heart Attack Was Almost Certainly the End. Here's the Science That Changed That.
Health

Before the Stent, a Heart Attack Was Almost Certainly the End. Here's the Science That Changed That.

In the mid-twentieth century, a heart attack meant bed rest, minimal treatment, and a coin-flip chance of survival. Today, most Americans who suffer one will live through it — and many will be back to normal life within weeks. The transformation in cardiac care over the past 70 years is one of medicine's most remarkable untold stories.
Baseball Players Used to Work Construction in the Off-Season. Then One Court Case Changed Everything.
Sport

Baseball Players Used to Work Construction in the Off-Season. Then One Court Case Changed Everything.

For most of baseball's history, even the best players in the country earned modest wages and had almost no say in where they played or what they were paid. Today, the average MLB salary tops $4 million a year. The story of how that happened is really the story of one legal battle that cracked the entire system open.
Three Weeks of Mud, Misery, and Mechanical Failure: The Lost Ordeal of Driving Across America
Travel

Three Weeks of Mud, Misery, and Mechanical Failure: The Lost Ordeal of Driving Across America

Before interstate highways and GPS, driving from New York to Los Angeles was less a vacation and more a survival expedition. Early motorists faced unpaved roads, zero navigation tools, and cars that broke down almost daily — and the trip could eat up an entire month of your life. Here's how dramatically American road travel has changed.