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Eastern Standard for March 19, 2020

A 333% increase in alcohol-related deaths in Kentucky over the last two decades; dramatic increases nationally among women and the middle-aged. | Efforts are underway to reduce Kentucky's high rates of type 2 diabetes through lifestyle changes. | Our continuing series on the 19th Amendment: the major, society-shifting changes after establishing women's right to vote. | A Transylvania University student makes trading cards of influential women.

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