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If it's late November, then it's time for Turkey Day at Little Woods Elementary School in New Orleans, La. Each fall, for decades, students have dined on the same spread of turkey, Creole gravy, corn-bread dressing and sweet-potato pie. But this week they will add a...
In all, about 100 students and teachers fell ill with various symptoms of vomiting, abdominal cramps and bloody diarrhea; a handful were rushed to the hospital. The culprit? Clostridium perfringens, a bacterium that resides in the intestines of animals but is usually killed when meat is properly prepared. In a...
The hunters had gone out into the woods at 4:30 a.m. and were just then coming in for lunch. One hunter, who had harvested a number of deer in past years, was a partial quadriplegic. The volunteers wheeled him into the field on a gurney, and thanks to a...
When one blue pickup rumbled into camp, it bore the body of a doe. A twelve-gauge slug had blasted through the tenderloin just behind the ribcage. Two fawns had been at her side. Paul, the hunter, had a wife and two daughters. He had been in a snowmobile accident...
After lunch the hunters returned to their stands. I joined three volunteers accompanying Vito, who had become partially paralyzed when he fell from his roof. We drove to his stand: a square of plywood on the ground at the edge of the woods, overlooking a meadow. The volunteers helped Vito...