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This sort of wandering exposition had been one of my prime suspicions about the ineffectiveness of dialogue. But seeing it in practice produced only mild frustration. While a guided conversation might have been nice, what took place had its own significant power. Every time a Jew began to speak, I tensed up with anxiety, worried that the individual would misrepresent the entire community. Every time a black student spoke, I hung on every word, as if each bit of information, no matter how mundane, was a precious resource to be hoarded. After more than an hour, and well after Professor...
Three hundred miles to the north and far away from the destruction, the most inclement weather Cambridge residents have faced in recent weeks has been the occasional blustery noreaster. But even here, where the winter has been comparatively mild, there are those in the Harvard community who were not immune to the effects of Florida's latest natural disaster...
...pandemic of 1918 remains a mystery. It began with a relatively mild initial assault on March 4, when the first reported case occurred at Camp Funston, Kans. Within four months, the virus had traversed the globe. The flu sickened millions but killed relatively few, and in the tumult of World War I, the first wave seemed pretty mundane...
...August 1918, the mild virus apparently reassorted into something positively deadly. Outbreaks caused by the new variant exploded almost simultaneously in three far-flung locations: France, Sierra Leone and Boston. The flu struck with a ferocity that shocked doctors, who feared this strange new pathogen might be an airborne version of the Black Death. Patients died awash in blood and gore, literally drowning as fluid filled their lungs...
...They knew that while avian influenza did not ordinarily make its host sick, a benign virus could reassort to produce a pathogen of almost inconceivable lethality. Webster's Memphis lab had observed such a transformation in the wild on two occasions, the first in April 1983, when a relatively mild influenza struck chickens on the vast chicken farms of Pennsylvania. The birds got visibly sick, some died and egg production fell, but overall the outbreak remained only a vexing economic problem...