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Starbucks Drops Drink Powder That Enveloped Baristas in Clouds of Dust

Baristas said the ingredient left them coughing and sneezing.

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A Starbucks store in Austin, Texas, this month. The company this week removed a powder used in its blended refreshers drinks from its U.S. stores.
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5 Takeaways on the Fallout From an Alarming C.T.E. Study

At least one in four N.F.L. players, and likely a much higher percentage, had the brain disease when they died. Will anything change?

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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy can be diagnosed only posthumously.
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Many N.F.L. Players Get Brain Disease. Why Hasn’t OSHA Intervened?

“We never see things that are this dire,” a former chief scientist of the agency said about rates of C.T.E. in former players.

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The former N.F.L. player Jonathan Martin entering an M.R.I. machine for a brain examination that was part of a study to develop treatments for the symptoms and illnesses linked to C.T.E.
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Major Study Finds at Least 1 in 4 NFL Players Gets CTE

The actual prevalence, researchers said, may be much higher.

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The biggest predictor of C.T.E. is the cumulative force of hits to a head over a lifetime.
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