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Experts say they cannot pinpoint the first infection in this outbreak until the virus is contained. But if Esther Owete was the first case, then ground zero is her mud hut, now boarded up. There, minutes after her death, according to neighbors, Owete's distraught mother cried out for her grandson, Owete's one-year-old son Sam, to "suck your mother's last milk so you too can die. There is no one here to look after you now." He survived just four days. The Ebola was really moving by then, rushing through the family as members cared...
...first to die was Esther Owete. Sometime in early September, the 36-year-old from Kabedo-Opong, in northern Uganda, began complaining of "a coldness in her body," remembers her brother Richard Oyet, standing outside her mud-and-thatch hut. "Then she said she had pains in the muscles in her legs." Owete's chest began hurting. She became feverish and vomited blood. "We thought it was malaria," says a neighbor, Justin Okot. At a clinic in the nearby town of Gulu, Owete was injected with the antimalarial chloroquine and sent home. "She didn't even last 24 hours," says...
CHARIOTS OF MUD Cue the inspiring music. Now slow it down. While the swift get their due, the steady go sadly unheralded. And so we salute Britain's CHRIS MADDOCKS, 43, the slowest athlete in the Games' slowest event. He came in last in the 50-km walk (31 miles), in just under five hours...
...memorizing 26 phonetic symbols, but they are not so good at making utterances that resemble coherent, logical statements? Didn't it make you feel a little guilty that, despite adorable Colleen's uncontested status as America's sweetheart, you couldn't help but have lustful dreams about her mud-wrestling Susan the truck driver? Finally, didn't you secretly hope that the episode featuring Richard's naked birthday extravaganza would simply last forever...
Primaries result in voter apathy because they inflate the already excessive time spent on the incredibly unproductive business of campaigning. Campaigning not only wastes politicians' time, but, because of its attack ads, its mud-slinging and its inflated promises, campaigning destroys voter trust. An extended campaign season leaves political reporters with little to write about except the occasional missteps of candidates on the trail and juicy gossip, none of which is really relevant to the issues of governance. The skeleton generally rises out of the closet in the beginning of a campaign--if you think back far enough the public...