Eyeful in Gaza
War reportage cartoonist Joe Sacco dusts off an ignored story of massacre.
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19 January 2010: Afternoon
Despite controversies following other disasters, American Red Cross has now collected $103 million via texts. Sachs: A Haiti Recovery Fund should last five years, and Obama should pony up $2 billion. Mary Ellen Mark and other photographers featured in a magazine to benefit Haiti. Media mistakes: When are Haitians looters
19 January 2010: Morning
With so many bodies denied rest in family burial plots...countless spiritual connections would be severed. Website of cartographically illustrated current events. It still feels like living in exactly the future we were promised. In 2010, reading a 1972 book about 2010. Chart: The evolution of Crayola colors. Those who
Hospice Behind Bars
At a Louisiana prison best known for controversial rodeos and keeping the Angola 3 in solitary confinement for more than 29 years, there’s a glimmer of hope and humanity: a hospice where inmate volunteers provide end-of-life care for dying prisoners.
Letters, We Got Letters
Thomas Mallon anthologizes all manner of epistolary delights.
What Are Your Cures for the Common Cold?
’Tis the season of the long hard slog from New Year’s to March, the snow and the rain, the wintry contagions. Thank goodness for the occasional three-day weekend and flu shots. If you’re lucky, you’ll even escape the inconveniently timed common cold. To take fullest advantage,
Killer Rubber Duckies
Environmental activists examine check out the danger of rubber ducks.
It’s Never Too Late
Seventy-year-old career musician Andre Williams makes his literary debut.
15 January 2010: Weekend
Dead in Haiti estimated to be 50,000; health ministry resorts to mass graves. Destroyed infrastructure, roads, and port delay aid arrival; "survivors dying in huge numbers." Seismologists understand the mechanics of earthquakes, but remain a long way from being able to predict them. Stunned by suffering, disaster
’Tussin
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we assist a college student who’s swimming in dirty laundry and drowning in cough syrup.