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Heart of Darkness: AIDS, Africa, and Race
… physicians distinguished themselves from their competitors in the healing business, cornering the market in … By the end of the decade, careful molecular-genetic studies had traced the evolutionary tree of HIV, showed the points of divergence from the ancestor simian viruses from …
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The Sweet Spot in Time
… new agricultural methods, new means of transportation and communication that led to the greatest era of change in … baptism by fire as a scientist speaking to public audiences. Nothing I had done before as a scientist had … people to sign up for virtual citizenship on the TerraMar website in order to provide a collective voice on behalf of …
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D-Day 65 Years On
… events, aged specters signifying a time when wars, if bloodier but as tragic as any today, seemed to have defined purposes and goals, contemptible though they may have been. I have never … WWII veteran, though not of the Normandy landings), a D-Day commemoration at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in …
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Whitman and Patriotism
… Grass , approaches its 150th birthday still strutting its uncompromising, unqualified assertiveness. True, one could … Rorty and Martha Nussbaum, took positions that define endpoints of a spectrum of attitudes toward patriotism, a … of which Lincoln became the patron saint and Civil War soldiers the models and paradigms. In this way, one could say …
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Elizabeth Bishop at Summer Camp
… When she was still a baby, her father, William Bishop, died of Bright’s disease (the term a century ago for acute … Louise , the cabin where Bishop berthed for the summer of 1926, was a forty-seven-foot sloop marooned in a cradle … Immediate confusion. You’ve left out the decimal points. Your columns stagger, honeycombed with zeros. You …
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Calculated Risks
… to use it. Again. Sheldon Kaplan, a biomedical engineer who also designed a medical kit for the Apollo Moon Missions, … Prize in Chemistry.  The EpiPen was approved by the FDA for commercial sale in 1987, seven years after I was born. It … allergies? Many in the room were focused on supporting studies of OIT, oral immunotherapy, and SLIT, sublingual …