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...health: Globalization is a public-health hazard. While the recent H1N1 pandemic was non-lethal, there is a disturbing likelihood that either a natural, fatal pandemic will occur or a biological weapon will be unleashed in the near future; global travel and trade patterns make it virtually impossible to cabin such outbreaks. Our public-health models and institutions are not geared to prepare for such a catastrophic health emergency—and yet, such an emergency is becoming more likely. Part of the answer will be research and technology, but much of the outcome will depend upon planning and preparation...
Despite the fact that those wilderness explorers were many years my junior, they had a precocious method to their madness. They recognized that missing out on the best materials during arts and crafts does no one any favors. As a tardy cabin leader, I wasn’t doing them any favors either...
Others have tried to catalyze action with mixed results. As a cabin counselor for fifth graders, I was once the target of an elaborate scheme by my 10-year-old campers who moved our cabin clock 15 minutes forward while I was sleeping. They were tired of getting to arts and crafts after all the good popsicle sticks had been claimed...
Planes are tricky because of the cabin pressure and lack of humidity. That may explain Hobica's less than glowing review of the Boston Market chicken sandwich he had on a recent American Airlines flight. "It wasn't horrible," he says...
Here’s the problem: for every brilliant stupid comedy, there are five really, really stupid ones. These are the kinds of movies I watched during weekly screenings at summer camp—the ones I remember playing in the background on the main cabin screen of a Delta flight as I adjusted my plastic stethoscope earphones and spread Ken’s dressing on a few dry leaves of salad and think...