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It's rare to find a podcast that can actually change your life. But when the show is called Life Kit,

that's kind of the whole point. I'm Mariel Segarra. Three times a week on the Life Kit podcast,

we guide you through a topic we could all use help with, from personal development to healthy

living to

managing your dinero, with takeaways so you can start living what you learn right away.

Escucha a Life Kit podcast from NPR.

Hey, good morning. Patricia Murphy here. It's Saturday. This is Seattle now. Today, we're bringing

you the best from the KUOW Newsroom. We'll start

with a local anniversary. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center celebrated its 50th yesterday.

Gabriel Spitzer reports that over that time, the Hutch has evolved from a scrappy lab doing what some

considered risky science into one of the top

cancer centers in the world. Here's Gabe.

Some of the earliest work at what would become the Fred Hutch Cancer Center took place in the

1970s, underground, down three flights of fluorescent-lit stairs.

It was an old naval communication bunker from World War II.

Reiner Storb was part of that first tiny team testing radiation treatment on dogs.

There was a treatment room and there was a separate room with total body irradiation sources.

The rest of it was abandoned old radio equipment. Yeah. room with total body irradiation sources.

The rest of it was abandoned old radio equipment.

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