Did You Read About Heroin Overdoses Ringling Brothers And The World S Oldest Person

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• Send in the clowns, because the elephants are done.

Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us.

• That the Ringling Brothers circus will stop using elephants? —Brianna Wellen

• That descendants of Holocaust survivors have altered stress hormones? —Gwynedd Stuart