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To be fair, the public-health authorities had begun works to improve the city's infrastructure. But their refusal to retreat from the miasma theory, and the extra piles of atmospheric data they commissioned to prop it up, cost thousands more lives. Snow's victory over the miasmatists wasn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ignorance is a Killer | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

Many chefs also enjoy concocting endless riffs on basic breakfast foods like bread and eggs. "Bread goes with anything," says Keller, and "egg is the only protein that you use 24 hours a day in a savory and a sweet." That versatility explains why pain perdu - an authentically French version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Toast for Dinner | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

So is the modernization of Hanoi, where the streets are strung with drooping skeins of hundreds of electrical wires, some of them powering a single home that has run a line into the tangle. The streets are also clogged with schools of motor scooters, with most of the riders free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Escaping Washington, But Not Escaping Iraq | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

3:30: Feeling the heat, the Crimson attack piles it on. Harvard earns two consecutive corners but fails to guide the ball past Bruins keeper Eric Reed.

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CRIMSON LIVE: Harvard at UCLA | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

The Slate article said: “The ground was not especially sticky in Little Women when Louisa May Alcott wrote that ‘the land literally flowed with milk and honey,’ nor was Tom Sawyer turning somersaults on piles of money when Twain described him...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Cuts Columnist for Lifting Material | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

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