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  "textContent": "The New York Times Magazine explores how a growing body of research is upending what doctors thought they knew about people in so-called vegetative states. The piece by Katie Engelhart reports that some patients long assumed to be entirely unconscious may, in fact, have hidden or \"covert\" awareness—raising unsettling...",
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