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...H1N1, which has already stoked global fears of a massive pandemic, there's almost certain to be some overreaction. That's what happened this week when the public was hit with a double-play of scary news: A new estimate showed that that up to 90,000 Americans could die of H1N1 in the upcoming season; and a simultaneous report that the government was taking some unprecedented steps to get a vaccine ready in time. But the fatality numbers are more complicated - and less alarming - than they seem; and the vaccine report is less a reason for alarm than...
...after losing the Democratic nomination for President to Jimmy Carter. The speech Kennedy hoped to deliver in Denver would echo the earlier one, although a slight change in the closing words would make for a profound shift in mood. The robust Kennedy of 1980, announcing "The dream shall never die," was a young lion in winter, defiant in his beliefs even in defeat. The ailing Kennedy of 2008, stricken with incurable cancer but sailing every afternoon, told me that he was determined to conclude with an affirmation of hope. So the convention and the country would not hear the word...
...could see people crying across the hall as he finished, "For me a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die." (Read "Replacing Ted Kennedy in the Senate...
...most of us, there are no easy conversations about death and dying, the topic we avoid like the shady stranger in the dark alley. Two out of three people die in hospitals or nursing homes, often alone, too often afraid. When researchers interviewed family members of the recently deceased, half of them said their loved one did not get the support he or she needed at the end. Yet it was the idea that doctors should be encouraged to talk to patients and their families about their wishes that set off a firestorm this summer, one of the most disturbed...
Despite its heritage, the factory's future is anything but certain. Tsang's two sons aren't interested in inheriting the family business, and her employees don't have a command of the science behind the sauces. "If I die," says Tsang, "no one will make this kind of soy sauce anymore." Just as well she has plenty of life left...