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The Plague

Re-understanding Violence as We Had to Re-Understand Plague..To Cure It

Gary Slutkin | Posted 06.19.2012 | Chicago
Read More: Baltimore, Mit, Violence, Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Ceasefire, The Project on Justice in Times of Transition, Bubonic Plague, Gun Violence, Neuroscience, John Hopkins University, Chicago, Epidemic, Epidemiology, The Plague, Conflict Resolution, Saxelab, Chicago News
Gary Slutkin

Human history is filled with tragic blunders that fail to put their finger on the problem, and actually compose a "solution" that has no value. This is where we are today, relying on prisons as solutions to reducing the epidemics of violence.

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Strangest New York Visitors: Leprosy And The Bubonic Plague

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: NYC Department of Health, Exotic Diseases, The Plague, Nyc Disease Control, Ny News, Leprosy, New York News

Did you think we were done with cholera, or the bubonic plague? Well, we're not. Millions of people come to New York City every year, and a few of t...

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The Real Thing: Saul Bellow Off the Record

David Galenson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Experimental Innovator, Virginia Woolf, Saul Bellow, William Faulkner, Philip Roth, Letters, Spanish Civil War, Leslie Fiedler, Victoria Lidov, Camus, The Plague, Ezra Pound, Arts News
David Galenson

Bellow's recently published Letters give us a generous sampling of the literary judgments of a great writer, with private assessments of his own work -- as well as that of others.

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January 4, 1960: Albert Camus Dies In a Car Crash, Age 46. His Books Make Him Immortal

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Headbutler, Cartier-Bresson, Camus, Car Crash, The Plague, Existentialism, Seven Sisters, Books News
Jesse Kornbluth

On January 4, 1960 --- exactly fifty years ago --- Albert Camus had a train ticket to Paris in his pocket.

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Malcolm Casadaban, University Of Chicago Professor, Dies After Contact With Plague Bacteria

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Plague Bacteria Research, Malcolm Casadaban, Yersinia Pestis, University of Chicago, Health, U of C Plague, Plague Bacteria, The Plague, Chicago News

A University of Chicago molecular genetics professor studying the origins of harmful bacteria died last weekend after contracting an infection linked ...

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Newspapers, Not Books, Are the Key to Engaging Budding College Students

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: College Students, Internet, Newspapers, College, Books, Novels, 9/11, Charles Dickens, Paradise Lost, Albert Camus, Herman Melville, The Plague, Edmund Spenser, Students, John Milton, Chaucer, Media News
Danny Groner

The acts of reading the newspaper and participating in conversation about current affairs are worth more to young college students than interpreting foreign works, no matter their messages.

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Writing Under the Influence, Living Under the Influence

David Finkle | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Literature, Exile and the Kingdom, Elizabeth Hawes, Philosophy, Built of Books, The Stranger, Thomas Wright, The Plague, Albert Camus, A Happy /Death, Biography, Oscar's Books, Philosophy of the Absurd, The First Man, Entertainment, Camus--a Romance, Memoir, Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Healthy Living News
David Finkle

Although her title is an eyebrow-raiser, Elizabeth Hawes knows what she's doing. With Camus, a Romance, her new and unconventional work, she isn't simply writing a biography.

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Medieval 'Vampire' Skull Found Near Venice

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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The skull of a "vampire" has been found near Venice among the corpses of 16th century plague victims, reports LiveScience. The leader of the archaeol...

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The Plague Is Back

Time.com | Laura Blue | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: The Return of the Plague, The Plague, Black Death, Healthy Living News

Like no other disease, plague evokes terror. One of the most lethal illnesses in human history, it killed probably a third of Europe's population in t...

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