March 27, 2013
[The New York Times] Australia’s first death from XDR-TB — extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, which is nearly incurable — has alarmed health officials and added new heat to a debate over how to treat immigrants with dangerous diseases. That...
January 28, 2013
[New York Times] In September of 1873, United States Senator J.R. West of Louisiana received a telegram from his home state whose terse lines spoke of abject desperation:
The people are panic-stricken. All that could have left. The poor are nearly all ...
