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Topic: ice bucket challenge

Participants sign up to take part in the World Record Ice Bucket Challenge at Etihad Stadium on August 22, 2014 in Melbourne, Australia. (Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

Tests on stem cells may be revolutionary

Carina Seah - Massive Science
(Shutterstock/Salon)

Brendan Gauthier
Drew Carey, Jenny McCarthy (AP/Scott Roth/Cliff Owen/Salon)

Justice or vigilantism?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
People pour ice water over themselves during an "ice bucket challenge" fund raising event in Bangkok (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

The "satanic" ice bucket

Elias Isquith
(AP/Alastair Grant)

Jenny Kutner
Stephen Hawking takes "ALS Ice Bucket Challenge" (screenshot/YouTube Entertainment Central)

Sarah Gray
George R.R. Martin (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Sarah Gray
(Chokniti Khongchum/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
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Prachi Gupta
Major League Baseball Commissioner-elect Rob Manfred participates in the ALS Ice-Bucket Challenge, Aug. 20, 2014. (AP/Vanessa A. Alvarez)

ALS gets an ethical debate

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-105328p1.html'>Joshua Resnick</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Jenny Kutner
Beryl Lipton douses Matt Lee during the ice bucket challenge in Boston, Aug. 7, 2014 to raise funds and awareness for ALS. (AP/Elise Amendola)

Sarah Gray
(Today/Bush Family)

Prachi Gupta
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Prachi Gupta
(NBC/Douglas Gorenstein)

The truth about the challenge

Sarah Gray

Prachi Gupta
Beryl Lipton douses Matt Lee during the ice bucket challenge in Boston, Aug. 7, 2014 to raise funds and awareness for ALS. (AP/Elise Amendola)

Is this the way to end ALS?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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