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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he sold counterfeit opioid pills to Mac Miller two days before the rapper died of an overdose.

The Following is a transcript heard on NPR Radio "All Things Considered" August 6, 2019:

Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Asheville City Government The Haywood Streetscape Improvement project continues to move forward. 

Coin Desk -- Telegram Open Network, or TON, the ambitious blockchain project announced last year by the Telegram messaging app, is expected to release the code needed to run a TON node on Sept. 1, according to two individuals familiar with the project.

With unprecedented death toll, unique strategies needed to reverse tide, study finds. 

Researchers have found that inflammation in the lungs of rats, triggered by something as simple as the flu, may wake up a silent genetic defect that causes sudden onset cases of pulmonary hypertension, a deadly form of high blood pressure in the lungs.

BURNS, ORE. (AP) — Jet-car speed racer Jessi Combs has died in a crash in Oregon's Alvord Desert while trying to break a speed record.

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 August 22, 2019 Summary:

Researchers have discovered a scorpion toxin that targets the 'wasabi receptor,' a chemical-sensing protein found in nerve cells that's responsible for the sinus-jolting sting of wasabi. Because the toxin triggers a pain response, scientists think it can be used as a tool for studying chronic pain and inflammation, and may eventually lead to the development of new kinds of non-opioid pain relievers.