Summer 2016 Real to Reel

High blood pressure disproportionately hits African Americans and other populations of society in which poverty and other social ills are rampant. Photo: Andrew Cribb / iStock

The Summer 2016 Real to Reel newsletter spotlights stories that include why many abortion clinics close their doors; the remnants of a long-abandoned Army base in Greenland slowly being revealed by melting ice; and a 90-year-old man building a cathedral by hand near Madrid almost entirely by himself.

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