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...into everything from publishing a daily paper to convicting a killer to running a city (or country). And for all of us—from future politicians, lawyers, and journalists to garden-variety citizens—it has more than a few important messages about the real troubles that afflict this country. In the world of “The Wire,” as the final episode so beautifully and movingly showed, everything moves in cycles, and the system feeds itself. The only way we can break it is by agitating en masse: against lies, against self-interest, against...
...copepod. Once the water is consumed by a human, the copepod is destroyed in the stomach, but the egg lives on. About a year after a person drinks the infested water, the Guinea worm emerges, usually in the lower extremities, creating a painful and debilitating condition which continues to afflict thousands in Ghana...
...motives. Some have said they fear for their own safety. Elijah Wald, author of a recent book on narco corridos, argues that entertainers are not being specifically targeted. They are just in the same circles as many drug traffickers and are caught up in the jealousies and arguments that afflict everyone in that world. "If you were to drop a bomb on a random party of drug traffickers you would always get a few musicians," Wald says. "Singers also attract the attention of people's wives and girlfriends, which could be enough to get them killed. The rising gangsters gain...
There is no doubt that the promise of stem cell technology for the curing of many of the worst diseases to afflict the human race cannot be overstated. But with large possibility comes a duty to be skeptical and cautious. It would be foolish for anyone to construe the recent breakthroughs as a reason to discontinue research on embryonic stem cells or to give up the fight to reverse President Bush’s moratorium on the creation of new stem cell lines with federal funding. The new stem cells have not been proven equivalent to true embryonic stem cells...
...uniform. And once they hang it up for good, we stop caring about them, except when they take us on a stroll down memory lane. The press rarely reports on what happens to ex-players--the injuries that intensify as the athletes approach middle age, the financial woes that afflict players who make too much money too fast and then see it disappear. And there's a reason for that: fans don't want to know. Thinking of players as real human beings, with identities off the field, spoils the fantasy. Atlanta Falcons fans don't care that Michael Vick...