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...disease. Then in 2004 came another disturbing report in the medical journal the Lancet: variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (VCJD), as the illness is properly called, could be spread through blood transfusions. With no way to test for the incurable illness except in the brain samples of the dead, how to ensure the safety of the world's blood supply...
...American aggression, and the residents ha[d] turned two football fields into graveyards.” While no undisputed account of the details of the devastation exists, doctors working on the ground were seething with rage: One claimed that “not less than 60 percent of the dead were women and children. You can go see the graves yourself.” Another condemned the operation as a “massacre...
...think Australians are rather like Americans and that we want to be more so. Dead wrong. No idealism attended the birth of Anglo-Australia. White colonization in America began as a religious venture; the Puritans thought they were, literally, creating God's country. Australia, by contrast, began as the continent of sin, the dump for English criminals. Australians, unlike Americans, have never felt they had a mission or a message for a fallen world. There is no doctrine of Australian exceptionalism. If this deprived us of the heights of American moral expectation, it spared us from the anguish of American...
Through most of the 19th century the Aborigines were driven off their ancestral lands by settlers, and when they resisted, they were killed. Many more died of disease or social despair. Nobody knows how many because no one bothered to count either the living or the dead; the whites were engaged in the more important task, as the history books used to say, of "nation building." By the end of the 19th century it was assumed that the natives would soon be extinct, and the whites' only task was "to smooth the dying pillow...
Both Kaufer and Weinberg said they were astounded when they read “The Naked and the Dead,” Mailer’s first novel, a vivid depiction of war based on Mailer’s experience as a soldier in the Pacific in World...