by Alan Bisbort | Nov 12, 2009 | News
It was an accident, this missing of a familiar highway exit in my wife's childhood home in Massachusetts. And yet it wasn't an accident at all. We had arranged, on this return visit, to stay at a hotel in the area for the weekend of her brother's wedding....
by Stephanie Kraft | Nov 12, 2009 | News
As swine flu spreads, affecting nearly 6 million Americans by now, spreading fever and discomfort and creating long lines of people waiting for vaccine that's in short supply, reports say that scrutiny of large hog farming operations has slowed down, not speeded...
by Mark Roessler | Nov 12, 2009 | News
On September 2, 2009, a memo was released by John Auerbach, Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health. Its subject: "False Rumors Regarding Mandatory Vaccination for H1N1 Influenza." The opening paragraph reads:"Many of you may have heard rumors that...
by Tom Vannah | Nov 17, 2009 | News
There it was, two weeks or so after the first meal, sitting on the windowsill: dry, brittle.I presented it to my daughter without comment. She inspected both sides carefully, looking for the weakness. Satisfied, she grabbed one end of the wishbone and nodded....
by Stephanie Kraft | Nov 12, 2009 | News
Though researchers acknowledge that workers on small as well as large pig farms may contract and spread the swine flu virus, the large farms are special objects of concern because of the much higher numbers of animals, the confined conditions (some pigs never see the...
