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Senior, John F. Kennedy High School Having moved to the United States from Ethiopia when she was 5, Hewan Kidanemariam is aware of inequities in the world—especially when it comes to health care. She says her early interest in medicine was influenced by her mother, who was a medical aide during that country’s civil war and would tell stories of bandaging wounded soldiers. “It really comes down to impact. There are other professions where you can help people, but it’s more indirect,” says Hewan, 17, who lives in Silver Spring and aspires to be a physician. “In health care, you have...

Beth Ewen Illustration by Jonathan Hankin Could the root cause of growing rancor at I Heart Mac & Cheese be that customers don’t heart the cheese sauce? Genevieve Prieto thinks so. She was the second franchisee to sign on, in late 2017, and said she was told by Michael Blom, the chef that helped create the brand, that sales at the flagship store in Florida were $700,000 a year. The actual figure was $262,054, a document shows. She closed her store in December 2018, only eight months after opening, after sales dropped from $31,000 the first week to $5,000 t...