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...strain of influenza persisted into the '20s, then disappeared, or lost its virulence and faded into the great jigsaw of constantly reassorting viruses. Until lately, the epidemic had almost disappeared from our collective memory as well, prompting Crosby to title his history The Forgotten Epidemic. Among flu experts, however, its mysteries are still current and utterly significant. It has always stood as a vivid warning of what the next pandemic could be like. What made the virus so lethal? Why was it able to kill so quickly? And where in nature did it originate...
...suspects, both white males in their lateteens or early 20s, made away with a bikebelonging to one of the students...
Smith said her search for an "integrated, multifaceted" American identity began in an acting class she took "as a fluke" in her 20s. When the professor required all the students to repeat 14 lines over and over, she chose Shakespeare's Queen Margaret, and had what she termed to be "a transcendental experience...
Tealuxe is part student hangout, part intellectual den and part tourist stop. A mixture of quirkiness and stylishness, there is nostalgia in the 20s and 30s jazz music wafting in the air, accompanying the retro first-half-of the 20th century decor...
...second, it is pernicious nonsense to think that bringing out the deepest, rawest, most unspoken parts of our souls is somehow the road to racial healing. Anyone who has actually done real psychotherapy, in which people really pour out their souls (in my 20s, I practiced psychiatry), knows how dangerous, delicate and often destructive such an exercise can be--even in the privacy, confidentiality and highly ritualized setting of the doctor-patient relationship. But large groups? Of strangers? On live national TV? Led by a well-meaning but astute and cunning...