This is the week when abstract and concrete conceptions of time collide, at least in my mind. Time is a relative, almost liquid thing, but this week I always feel as if I can watch the future become the present and the present become the past. It’s during this week that I’ll remember [...]

Grade school is where you learn the rules. You’re told there is one set of rules and they apply to everyone equally. Immediately thereafter, you’re shown the rules don’t apply to everyone equally. Few rules applied to some students, whose families are prominent in the community or whose elder siblings were star [...]

The fear with avian flu is that it will mutate into a form transmissible from human to human through aerosol means (i.e., coughing and sneezing). Epidemiologists believe that with the breadth avian flu has already achieved, this mutation is just a matter of time and probably not much time.
Health officials are confident a vaccine [...]

George W. Bush’s polling numbers continue to seek new lows. Even Republicans in the Senate are lining up behind resolutions pressuring the White House to set a timetable for getting out of Iraq and banning torture. Could our long, national nightmare be coming to an end? Are we turning a corner? [...]