“The U.S. Forest Service has fought decades of efforts to better protect its crews — sending them into smoke without masks or warnings about the risks.”
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Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t.
“Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?”
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Here Be Serpents
“A lifelong and morbid fear of snakes held me captive—until something much scarier raised its ugly head.”
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If My Dying Daughter Could Face Her Mortality, Why Couldn’t the Rest of Us?
“Perhaps part of Orli’s legacy is insisting on this conversation.”
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The Machine in the Garden
“After decades of unchecked hazardous waste pollution, a Florida hamlet fights the developers eager to build homes there anyway.”
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How the Poet Christian Wiman Keeps His Faith
“Pushpin-specific lists fill his essays; single, stirring images lift from lines of his poems like the pages of a pop-up book.”
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Song of the Scientist
“Mukherjee was fascinated with cells early on. But then he was interested in so many things.”
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Momo’s Deadline
Linda Button on her toughest writing assignment yet: her business partner’s epitaph.
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“Eat What You Kill”
“Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of patient harm and suspicious deaths.”
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The Atomic Disease
“Consider that Three Mile Island officials chose not to evacuate the surrounding community for days after the reactor meltdown.”
