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granted interviews since his transplant last year. "It's unreal. It has put some of the best people in my life."
• Now, at 38, he's starting a new life: taking online classes in pursuit of a degree in information systems and contemplating a foundation to help defray future transplant patients' everyday expenses during treatment.
• He also has been working with a photojournalist who just completed a book about his journey, titled "The Two Faces of Richard."
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• Cavaliers make UNLV's Anthony Bennett the first Canadian taken with No. 1 pick in NBA draft
• NEW YORK (AP) -- Anthony Bennett learned he would be making NBA draft history the same time as everyone else.
• "When they said my name," Bennett said. "That's when I knew it happened. I had no idea before."
• Who did?
• The Cleveland Cavaliers surprisingly made Bennett the first Canadian No. 1 overall pick, and Nerlens Noel tumbled out of the top five and right into a trade Thursday night in an unsettled first round of the draft.
• "It was chaotic from the first pick," Minnesota president Flip Saunders said. "When Bennett was taken off the board, that set the tone for the whole draft."
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Friday, June 28, the 179th day of 2013. There are 186 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlights in History:
• On June 28, 1863, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Maj. Gen. George G. Meade the new commander of the Army of the Potomac, following the resignation of Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker.
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• On this date:
• In 1778, the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth took place in New Jersey; it was from this battle that the legend of "Molly Pitcher" arose.
• In 1836, the fourth president of the United States, James Madison, died in Montpelier, Va.
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