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Ouch, way to make us all seem like elitist jerks! As if we didn’t do a good enough job of that ourselves. (By the way, we think you mean fas.harvard.edu...
...does this mean you should turn off the shower and go back to old-fashioned baths? Not exactly. "If you are an otherwise healthy person, there is no cause for alarm," says Dr. Lynn Connolly, a practicing clinician and assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who has treated patients with M. avium infection. Connolly is quick to add that if you have AIDS, chronic lung disease, cystic fibrosis or an immune system disorder, then there is some cause for concern. In such patients, the bacteria can cause lung diseases, and in some extreme cases infections in other...
...Imperial is infinite,” writes William Vollmann. And because saying it once could not possibly capture what he could mean, what he profoundly, obsessively believes, Vollmann writes it again and again—sometimes in those exact words, sometimes in others—over the 1,344-page opus that is his latest book. Imperial, the book’s titular county, is at the very southern tip of California—though its presence is so immeasurable that Vollmann spends several sections trying to define what his Imperial actually encompasses. Vollmann produces a work similar in many...
...nice kid. I mean, he was a jokester, kind of like a class clown. Everybody knew him. Everybody liked him." - Lisa Heselin, a high school friend of Clark's, CNN, Sept...
...days to be a U.S. adversary than its friend," lamented the Wall Street Journal in a Friday, Sept. 18, editorial, implying that the U.S. caved in to Russia in abandoning the missile system. But just because Russia had furiously opposed the missile shield on its doorstep doesn't necessarily mean building it would have been a good idea. The military rationale for Obama's move is hard to argue with. (Read "Mixed Reactions in Europe to the U.S. Missile-Defense U-Turn...