The infants and children we treat are often unable to breathe on their own; they may have aggressive cancers or complex fungal infections; they may have starved for months while migrating to the ...

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Where did I find affirmation in a book so enamored of the abyss? (Images of dark, empty spaces, reservoirs of nonbeing, fill the text: “cavern,” “breach,” “void,” “wound.”) Nor am I alone: generations ...

When did I become interested in disappearance? In November 1961, Michael Rockefeller, the son of the then governor of New York, age twenty-three, vanished in New Guinea when his catamaran capsized and ...

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The parent in question protested that a cheaper instrument would “damage or destroy” his son’s talent. The names of all students have been changed. There are at least $175 million in unused funds ...

For me, as for many others, the reading of detective stories is an addiction like tobacco or alcohol. The symptoms of this are: Firstly, the intensity of the craving — if I have any work to do, I must ...

From all available evidence no black man had ever set foot in this tiny Swiss village before I came. I was told before arriving that I would probably be a “sight” for the village; I took this to mean ...

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Excerpted from an article by E. Wade Davis in the November 1983 issue of the Journal of Ethnopharmacology. A fuller account of Davis’s search for the Haitian zombie poison was documented in The ...

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From Two Cheers for Anarchism, published last month by Princeton University Press. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. In the summer of 1990, in an effort to improve ...