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From their onset in any community, infectious diseases quickly become political as well as medical crises. During the Middle Ages, the appearance of the plague in a European city was more likely to result in a pogrom against Jews, or burnings of suspected witches, than any rational public-health response. More recently, when HIV began its slow burn through the U.S., it was several years before then President Ronald Reagan even mentioned the disease publicly. The appearance of a probable new SARS case in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou late last month reminds us that the story of this...
...Western Desert. They considered themselves hardened campaigners and thought the G.I.s amateurs. The Americans expended vast quantities of ammunition to gain ground and expected air support in every attack. They were also much more generously equipped than the British, regarded luxuries as necessities and seemed to have money to burn. American privates were better paid than British junior officers...
...just a couple of weeks in kitchens across America, kids will make their annual cameo appearance beside the Mixmaster, the flour sifter and the (Careful! Don't burn yourself!) oven. They will savor batter, stamp out cookies, sprinkle colored sugar and manage to grease and flour just about every square inch of the kitchen. Parents' nerves will be baked to a crisp...
...with the monks. If the students of Harvard lived and ate as those monks, they would run crying home to mama. Grow up Harvard. Father Roman of St. Danilov Monastery has more humility than the Harvard Divinity School and more religion under his finger nail than all of Harvard. Burn your money, children, for you do not trust...
...Donuts in Everett. To accompany this meal, he smokes GT One full flavor cigarettes. “I buy generic ones, whatever’s cheap,” he says. With the radio tuned to 1510 AM, Dioguardi gets to work taping film together to burn the image from the film on to aluminum plates. When asked if he ever reads the pages of The Crimson when he’s taping down the film, Dioguardi laughs. “No, not really,” he says. “Sometimes I catch some mistakes though when...