Late every Christmas Eve, he’d tell me about it again. Eight-year-old P.J. had stepped on an old can that cut through his tattered shoe. The puncture wound became infected with tetanus — fatal even now in 10 percent of cases, far more so in rural Ireland at midcentury. The closest hospital was hours away, and…
Matthew Hayes was immediately attracted to Anne Muscarella when they first matched on the dating app Bumble in February 2018. “She had a big smile in all of her photos,” he said. “I could feel her warmth. I had a feeling that she would be a fun and real person.” Ms. Muscarella was living in…
Just as was likely true of the diplomatic event at which Hillary Liepa and Dwight Lin met, in November 2013 — a Beijing luncheon between then-Vice President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart — the real work of building the relationship was done in email. Months and months of it, written at epic lengths. “They…
Having a long, dark, Burt Reynolds-style mustache can be a blessing or a curse, depending on the circumstances. For Sean Welch Bredbenner, it turned out to be both one day in 2018. Mr. Bredbenner, a member of the Directors Guild of America, was in Washington, working on the set of “The Man Standing Next,” a…
Stephen Klein recalled answering his phone on May 27, 2002, and being told that his mother was taken to a hospital near her home in Cocoa Beach, Fla. “It was tough to deal with, and so I went to the place where I would go when I needed to clear my head: Central Park,” said…
“My next thought was, Oh, this is a date, because we had been flirting,” she said. “He had also paid for my meal.” “I dropped my water and made a big mess, but it went really well,” Mr. White said. “We sat outside, she told me that she was still married, which was news to…
President Biden’s surgeon general on Thursday used his first formal advisory to the United States to deliver a broadside against tech and social media companies, which he accused of not doing enough to stop the spread of dangerous health misinformation — especially about Covid-19. The official, Dr. Vivek Murthy, declared such misinformation “an urgent threat…
Like all love, though, it is fraught. Once on a trip to the historic town of Hampi in southern India, I perched Nozy in between some temple sculptures, took a picture and wandered away. Hours later, on our way back to the car, we realized he was missing. Bishan, aghast, yelled at me as if…
JULY 15, 2021, NEW YORK – A Ludwig Cancer Research study has found that inducing random chromosome instability (CIN) events in mice for as little as one week is enough to trigger harmful chromosomal patterns in cells that spur the formation of tumors. “We show that you don’t need chronic, lifelong chromosomal mistakes to produce…
Washington, DC / New Delhi, India – Researchers at CDDEP recently published ‘Improving vaccination coverage and timeliness through periodic intensification of routine immunization: evidence from Mission Indradhanush’ where they evaluated the performance of India’s Mission Indradhanush (MI) child vaccination campaign — a periodic intensification of the routine immunization program. Each year, 1.2 million Indian children…