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Healing a sick new world
Read more: Healing a sick new worldEarth-rise, as seen from Apollo 8 in 1968: forever a planet of ecstasy and agony. Here is what many know but few can say aloud in an enlightened age that disavows bluntness: any resourceful virus, and this is such a virus, will obtain its pound of human flesh no matter…
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18 years after 28 days
Read more: 18 years after 28 daysBack to the future, waiting to happen. Danny Boyle’s plague-driven 2002 film “28 Days Later” comes with an alternative ending. In the first, the sole survivors of decimating plague manage to escape a long out-of-use hospital under siege by the enraged infected. They wake in a green meadow and see…
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Whistle
Read more: WhistleIn NFL football, a penalty. In virus coverage, the more the merrier… In U.S. professional football, a congenitally violent sport, a penalty is assessed when marauding defensive players exaggerate the force needed to stop the forward progress of the player in possession of the ball. The violation is known as…
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Metaphor in a mine
Read more: Metaphor in a mineDeep down is brackish water, rails, a shovel, but nothing else. The blind man entombed in the coal mine is not aware of his predicament, at least not precisely. He begins each day as he did the one before, by wondering where he is. He knows of course that something…
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Chump
Read more: ChumpCloud cuckoo land featured giraffes and “zerbas.” For a large number of early days on the planet I wished only to live in cloud cuckoo land. Even on the outskirts — once, that is, I established that word meant outside the city and not a strange kind of woman’s garment…
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One but not likely done
Read more: One but not likely doneIn 1932, Army veterans and their families came to demand bonuses for their World War I service. Under siege following the Great Depression, Hoover was beaten by Franklin D. Roosevelt in November. My Polish-born mother had two unassailable pet theories, that mortality would ignore you if you refused to acknowledge…
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