| 单词 | epidemic |
| 例句 | Mavens have the knowledge and the social skills to start word-of- mouth epidemics. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Just after World War II, beginning in the Baltic port city of Danzig and spreading through central Europe, there was an epidemic of PCP that claimed the lives of thousands of small children. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It takes only two or three bad epidemics of disease to strike, and suddenly the group is gone. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z In an epidemic those people with genes for resistance to that particular microbe are more likely to survive than are people lacking such genes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The balance of this book will take these ideas and apply them to other puzzling situations and epidemics from the world around us. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The line between hostility and acceptance, in other words, between an epidemic that tips and one that does not, is sometimes a lot narrower than it seems. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Did that mean the epidemics were inevitable and there was nothing to be done? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z That nasty epidemic disease affects cattle and many wild cud-chewing mammals, but not humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This was New York City in the 1980s, a city in the grip of one of the worst crime epidemics in its history. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Margaret eventually moved to Pasadena, California, where she lived through time of war and epidemic and crushing financial depression, and then war again. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Stanton weeded out unfit and incompetent officers; battled dishonest government contractors who sold the army low-quality uniforms, rotting equipment, and defective weapons; and endured an epidemic of officers who would not fight. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The reason why the combination of those four traits tends to make a disease run in epidemics is easy to understand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I never dreamed that they were going to try to make it appear that instead of inoculating against an epidemic, I had started it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Even as the first outbreak faded, Fenn wrote, a second, apparently unrelated epidemic burned through Mexico City. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Since neither pigs nor chickens can be harnessed to pull carts, highlanders remained without sources of power other than human muscle power, and also failed to evolve epidemic diseases to repel the eventual European invaders. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In chapter 2, when I was discussing what made someone like Mark Alpert so important in word-of-mouth epidemics, I talked about two seemingly counterintuitive aspects of persuasion. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed purely chance at first, an epidemic of good health that the less intelligent of the trainees were tempted to put down to their own improving techniques. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But triumph turned to terror when the Tartar khan catapulted the dead bodies of his men over the city walls, deliberately creating an epidemic inside. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The rise of Hush Puppies and the fall of New York’s crime rate are textbook examples of epidemics in action. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If you didn’t stop the epidemic in the prisons, he said, any lasting accomplishments with the outside population would be questionable. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The Calvinists aboard the Mayflower believed that the epidemic was evidence of God’s grace and goodness, because it had greatly reduced the population of the area the Plymouth Colony would occupy. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z This was the soil on which my great-grandfather had married his third wife a year before dying in the cholera epidemic that hit Kabul in 1915. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There are enormous implications in Levanthal’s fear experiments and Wunderman’s work for Columbia Records for the question of how to start and tip social epidemics. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A flu epidemic hit in 1919, filling up the only funeral home in town, which was part of the hardware store. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “And in her delirium she talked about things that she’d never talked about before. She shed tears over her friends dying in the 1918 flu epidemic. That generation—my parents’ generation—lived through a lot. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Partly by happenstance, the U.S. geneticist James Neel and the U.S. anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon flew into Yanomami country in the midst of the epidemic. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was shortly after the measles epidemic that Dad started applying motion study to surgery to try to reduce the time required for certain operations. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s called the Rule of 150, and it is a fascinating example of the strange and unexpected ways in which context affects the course of social epidemics. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All in all it was a terrific month and right in the middle of it the influenza epidemic had to break out. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The explorer Martin Sauer, who visited Kamchatka five years after Cook’s expedition, discovered that the Russian government had at last ventured into the former epidemic zone. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This chapter is about the people critical to social epidemics and what makes someone like Paul Revere different from someone like William Dawes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This is important, and although such programs might well include the resistant European elms, they should aim at a variety of species so that no future epidemic could deprive a community of its trees. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Hence when we domesticated social animals, such as cows and pigs, they were already afflicted by epidemic diseases just waiting to be transferred to us. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The epidemics often were not even known to Europeans, still less deliberately caused by them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When Hernando de Soto became the first European conquistador to march through the southeastern United States, in 1540, he came across Indian town sites abandoned two years earlier because the inhabitants had died in epidemics. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those epidemics involved relatively straightforward and simple things — a product and a message. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the first known human cases in the United States appeared only as recently as 1962, Lyme disease is already reaching epidemic proportions in many parts of our country. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In between revolutions, communes, epidemics and wars, Paris was the Vegas of the nineteenth century, and the grandeur of its opera productions stood at the pinnacle of a glittering high-society scene. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In the sixteenth century, epidemics removed the boss. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z During epidemics this is where they are to be found in the majority of the host population, and it generally goes well. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “There have been lots of cases where individual towns kept out epidemics,” Black said. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Friday, she had to work straight through—a sixteen-hour shift—because the company was short-handed on account of an influenza epidemic. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after the British settlement of Sydney in 1788, the first of the epidemics that decimated Aboriginal Australians began. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Both were important allies of the British, and after the epidemic neither was able to fight the colonists successfully. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Law of the Few says that there are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Philadelphia health officials have issued a warning bulletin about the influenza epidemic. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z For example, a smallpox epidemic devastated the Aztecs after the failure of the first Spanish attack in 1520 and killed Cuitlahuac, the Aztec emperor who briefly succeeded Montezuma. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Messina's epidemic became pandemic, and the plague wiped out much of Europe. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z These numbers were astonishing to me and my staff, but the sad fact is that urban schools around the country were contending with epidemic levels of gun violence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Many of them, put together just after epidemics, would have represented population nadirs, not approximations of precontact numbers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A world that follows the rules of epidemics is a very different place from the world we think we live in now. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “What about the dead fishermen? The malaria epidemic?” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z However, the differential mortality from epidemic diseases in traditional European societies had little to do with intelligence, and instead involved genetic resistance dependent on details of body chemistry. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And what can we do to deliberately start and control positive epidemics of our own? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There are some, however, who seem to be immune to this epidemic of bubbles. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The three rules of the Tipping Point — the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor, the Power of Context — offer a way of making sense of epidemics. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Something else clearly played a role in reversing New York’s crime epidemic. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And the kinds of contextual changes that are capable of tipping an epidemic are very different than we might ordinarily suspect. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I told Miss Love she better be careful. Boil his plate and fork and all. I don’t want no epidemic gittin’ started in this town.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “They had already died from the disease. I was alone. That was why he chose me. In all the chaos of the epidemic, no one would ever realize I was gone.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z But what she wanted to do, in essence, was create a learning epidemic to counter the prevailing epidemics of poverty and illiteracy. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But plague didn’t begin to hit Europe with full force as the Black Death epidemics until A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I suppose that is why doctors and nurses could last through terrible epidemics. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z There is more than one way to tip an epidemic, in other words. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost all epidemics followed the same pattern, striking during warm weather, disappearing with the first hard frost. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z By the time of the epidemic, a rising proportion of the shipping traffic along the New England coast was of indigenous origin. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Law of the Few, which I talked about in the previous chapter, says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course all of us here are pleased with the world-wide epidemic of cyclotron construction,” he assured William W. Buffum, general manager of the Chemical Foundation, one of his major patrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Those factors still don’t explain, though, why the New World apparently ended up with no lethal crowd epidemics at all. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One of his friends came up with the phrase “health epidemic,” and they were going on to the parents and lifeguards that we needed to be ejected to prevent an outbreak at the pool. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “One epidemic in the collection,” he used to say, “and we’ll end up in a road crew breaking up stones.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Why is it that some ideas or behaviors or products start epidemics and others don’t? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The legal term is eminent domain. endemic/epidemic/pandemic. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The second, and perhaps more interesting, fact about these explanations is that all of them are describing a very different way of tipping an epidemic. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Spanish influenza epidemic has become more than a news item for us here. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z When such partly immune people came into contact with others who had had no previous exposure to the germs, epidemics resulted in which up to 99 percent of the previously unexposed population was killed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics, and genocide. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The infectious diseases that visit us as epidemics, rather than as a steady trickle of cases, share several characteristics. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z However, the epidemic dies out for any of several reasons, such as being cured by modern medicine, or being stopped when everybody around has already been infected and either becomes immune or dies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The resulting epidemic proceeded to kill nearly half of the Aztecs, including Emperor Cuitlahuac. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But they also sometimes tip when something happens to transform the epidemic agent itself. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m going to introduce three fascinating kinds of people I call Mavens, Connectors, and Salesmen, who play a critical role in the word-of-mouth epidemics that dictate our tastes and trends and fashions. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes such an epidemic was regarded as a blessing from God. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Without any apparent volition by Cortes, the great city lost at least a third of its population to the epidemic, including Cuitlahuac. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Paul Revere started a word-of-mouth epidemic with the phrase “The British are coming.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In both, as in New England, epidemic disease arrived before the first successful colonists. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Moniek and I were actually lucky our last camp had had a typhus epidemic, because it kept the guards out,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Some adults were excited too, but to be certain the whole young population had come down with graduation epidemic. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The ferocity of the civil war was exacerbated by the epidemic’s impact on a peculiarly Andean institution: royal mummies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But if there can be epidemics of crime or epidemics of fashion, there must be all kinds of things just as contagious as viruses. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Terrible malaria epidemic in Havana. These poor fishermen got caught up in it, I’m afraid,” he said. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the epidemics at least three thousand Siriono, and probably many more, lived in eastern Bolivia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The second of the principles of epidemics — that little changes can somehow have big effects — is also a fairly radical notion. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z These are the kinds of people who make epidemics of disease tip. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The old understanding of handling crime epidemics leads inevitably to a preoccupation with defensive measures against crime. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What curse, disease, or epidemic has he unleashed in our town? Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A smallpox epidemic in 1713 was the biggest single step in the destruction of South Africa’s native San people by European settlers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z More specifically, it is testimony to the power of one specific aspect of context, which is the critical role that groups play in social epidemics. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Did that mean that the epidemics were unavoidable? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Cholera, a deadly disease, had just reached England for the first time, and there were epidemics of typhus, typhoid fever, and scarlet fever. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The chapter on Sesame Street and Blue’s Clues looked at the question of Stickiness, suggesting that in order to be capable of sparking epidemics, ideas have to be memorable and move us to action. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She used to tell about a Confederate soldier from Cold Sassy who got sent to Andersonville to guard Yankee prisoners and passed away in the smallpox epidemic there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z There was a nun at the Yambuku Hospital who is known today as Sister M. E. She became gravely ill with I’epidemie, or “the epidemic,” as they had begun to call it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What happened to the heroes of the epidemic? An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z "It spreads fastest of all. We're going to need to shut it down before it becomes a citywide epidemic." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z A wave of germs was unleashed, causing all sorts of epidemics across the country. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the weeks ahead, he would postpone his return several times, as reports reached him that the epidemic was growing worse. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Mathew Carey went around town noting carefully what was happening and would later turn these observations into a written history of the epidemic. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The term hate crime was coined in response to what was described at the time as an “epidemic” of neo-Nazi and skinhead violence, although in retrospect it’s unclear whether any such epidemic existed. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Before we started angling to get into the wide world again the first question I wanted answered was this whole small-pox epidemic thing. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z If it were only the news itself that mattered in a word-of-mouth epidemic, Dawes would now be as famous as Paul Revere. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z These epidemics had been transmitted from coastal Indians infected by Spaniards visiting the coast. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It takes only the smallest of changes to shatter an epidemic’s equilibrium. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Tomsk was to be the major pilot project to stop the Russian TB epidemic, the project that would show the way to controlling—in prisons, towns, and cities throughout Russia—both drug-susceptible TB and MDR. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z A well-documented example from Pacific islands is the epidemic that swept over Fiji in 1806, brought by a few European sailors who struggled ashore from the wreck of the ship Argo. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Two of her children died in the epidemic,” I said. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The HIV epidemic tipped in the early 1980s, in short, not just because of the enormous changes in sexual behavior in the gay communities that made it possible for the virus to spread rapidly. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Because famine and epidemic disease had been rare in the Dawnland, its inhabitants had none of the pox scars or rickety limbs common on the other side of the Atlantic. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z After all they were not battling an epidemic. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z At age twenty-six, Virchow wrote passionately that terrible social conditions in an impoverished part of Germany called Upper Silesia were the cause of a malaria and dysentery epidemic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The stagnation that I so fervently glean on a daily basis seems an epidemic that only grows. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z At the beginning of the epidemic, Rush used mild purges and moderate bleedings and urged patients to sit in cool air, take cold baths, and eat light meals. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In the last chapter, I talked about how epidemics are, in part, a function of how many people a message reaches, and by that standard McCann was way ahead. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Severe reducing was thought to be the culprit behind an epidemic of fatal lung diseases, such as pneumonia and tuberculosis, among jockeys. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When an epidemic of mumps broke out in the school, Katie went into action against communicable diseases. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The issue of individual rights versus the common good resurfaced in a major way in the 1980s with the devastating HIV/AIDS epidemic. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Thus, food production and thousands of years of societal evolution following its adoption were as essential for the evolution of writing as for the evolution of microbes causing human epidemic diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In parts of Central America and the Andes, the Native Americans were originally so numerous that, even after epidemics and wars, much of the population today remains Native American or mixed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A classic illustration of how such diseases occur as epidemics is the history of measles on the isolated Atlantic islands called the Faeroes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was acting like we were headed for a lark instead of fleeing an epidemic. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To appreciate the power of epidemics, we have to abandon this expectation about proportionality. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For millions of Americans, concerned that excess drinking of alcoholic beverages had become a national epidemic destroying thousands of families, it was indeed a cause for celebration. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z A TB epidemic, laced with MDR, had occurred in New York City in the late 1980s, largely targeting prisons, homeless shelters, and public hospitals. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In terms of a spreading epidemic, Farmer and Goldfarb knew this was a nightmare. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Although today’s influenza and cholera epidemics make front-page stories, epidemics used to be far more terrifying before the rise of modern medicine. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The national government learned something because of the yellow fever epidemic as well. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z But scarlet fever epidemics still raged, and with seven children, there was always something to worry about. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1961 an epidemic of liver cancer appeared among rainbow trout in many federal, state, and private hatcheries. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The most famous flu epidemic of all — the pandemic of 1918 — was first spotted in the spring of that year and was, relatively speaking, quite tame. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He lost his wife and son to an epidemic carried by the soldiery, his royal patron was deposed, and he was excommunicated by the Lutheran Church for his uncompromising individualism on matters of doctrine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Many had died in a cholera epidemic and they’d been buried in haste in wooden boxes and the boxes were rotting and falling open. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The stage in Chicago even then was being set for Muslims to shift their focus off the epidemic—and onto me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In epidemics, the messenger matters: messengers are what make something spread. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When it comes to epidemics, though, this disproportionality becomes even more extreme: a tiny percentage of people do the majority of the work. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He says, waving his fork, that if we continue to overbreed as a species, a new epidemic will arise to redress the balance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A few had even been around in 1762, when the last yellow fever epidemic had struck. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It’s very possible that Nott, in reading about yellow fever epidemics from the past, had come across Rush’s mention of those little red spots on patients called petechiae that “resembled moscheto bites.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In the period when the New York epidemic tipped down, the city’s economy hadn’t improved. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the Black Death, a symbol of virulence, was not as deadly as these epidemics are claimed to be. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But there is a third, less obvious, factor here, which has to do with the last of the principles of epidemics. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By twenty-three, she was the mother of five children, had been married and separated, and been a casualty of the crack epidemic of the 1980s. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Paul Revere’s ride is perhaps the most famous historical example of a word-of-mouth epidemic. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Although studies are still under way to determine the exact cause of this epidemic over so wide an area, the best evidence is said to point to some agent present in the prepared hatchery feeds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The myxo virus, native to a wild species of Brazilian rabbit, had been observed to cause a lethal epidemic in European domestic rabbits, which are a different species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When the Spanish governor tried to recruit the Hopi to live in missions, their leaders told him not to bother: the epidemic soon would expunge them from the earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This idea of the importance of stickiness in tipping has enormous implications for the way we regard social epidemics as well. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They would be even more powerful if that pox epidemic hadn’t flattened their birthrate and made them so desperate for a new gene pool and breeders. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The greatest single epidemic in human history was the one of influenza that killed 21 million people at the end of the First World War. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Infected, they mingled with the civilian population and threatened to start an epidemic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Besides, Russia’s epidemic was ravaging its prisons, and prisoners were part of PIH’s special constituency—just check with Matthew 25 if you had any doubts. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But they both have the power to spark word-of-mouth epidemics. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Roger Horchow, likewise, faxed all his friends about the restaurant his daughter took him to, performing the first step in creating a word-of-mouth epidemic. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some premonition of trouble ahead might have been gained by the failure to control a typhus epidemic in Spain in 1948. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Even a few hundred isn’t enough to call it an epidemic,” he said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Aureus epidemic. We had plenty of warnings that something like that could happen and it eventually did. It took him and twenty million people with him.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z For a social epidemic to start, though, some people are actually going to have to be persuaded to do something. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A severe epidemic of measles reached the Faeroes in 1781 and then died out, leaving the islands measles free until an infected carpenter arrived on a ship from Denmark in 1846. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By the end of the first week of September, the yellow fever epidemic had driven the state government from Philadelphia and crippled the city’s administration. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Dr. Hueper has described this epidemic as a serious warning that greatly increased attention must be given to controlling the number and variety of environmental carcinogens. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If we are interested in starting an epidemic — in reaching a Tipping Point — what are the most effective kinds of groups? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think there’s going to be famine throughout the country this winter. Throughout the world. And with famine come epidemics. I think we’re in for horrifying times.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Genêt had fled Philadelphia and its epidemic for Manhattan in September, but the passions surrounding him and the Neutrality Act seemed to have died along the way. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In middens around Yellowstone National Park, he said, they first show up in large numbers about five hundred years ago, the time of the great epidemics. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Benjamin Rush emerged from the epidemic emaciated, feeble, and haunted. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The answer lies in the third of the principles of epidemic transmission, the Power of Context. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Goetz case has become a symbol of a particular, dark moment in New York City history, the moment when the city’s crime problem reached epidemic proportions. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But we need to remember that small changes in context can be just as important in tipping epidemics, even though that fact appears to violate some of our most deeply held assumptions about human nature. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That particular breed began as a joke, but had multiplied into an epidemic. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The bonanza continued into 1989, as the media continued to disseminate claims that crack was an “epidemic,” a “plague,” “instantly addictive,” and extraordinarily dangerous—claims that have now been proven false or highly misleading. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Foragers roamed the land in small bands that could not sustain epidemics. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mel’s mother died in an epidemic of what we think was pneumonia, and Spindle’s old mother died then, too. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z But then, suddenly and without warning, the epidemic tipped. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The epidemic spread through Boston and across the country—and the world. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z They are both based on the premise that an epidemic can be reversed, can be tipped, by tinkering with the smallest details of the immediate environment. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The New-York World Telegram described the reaction to the broadcast as an “epidemic of fear that has no parallel in our history.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Tuberculosis and double pneumonia were raging in those days, and Mameh had a great fear one of her kids would catch that, because in Europe one of her brothers died in a flu epidemic. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, New Guineans have been living in societies where human numbers were too low for epidemic diseases of dense populations to evolve. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The camp looked as though it had been through an epidemic: empty and dead. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But it’s not all that useful for, say, a group of people trying to spark a literacy epidemic with a small budget and one hour of programming on public television. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His recommendation to the German government: if it wanted to do something about the epidemic, it needed to end the malnutrition, overcrowding, and poor hygiene. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Even as the epidemics hit, Stearman learned, the group was fighting the white cattle ranchers who were taking over the region. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The annals of medicine are full of accounts of diseases that sound like no disease known today, but that once caused terrifying epidemics and then disappeared as mysteriously as they had come. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But if something displeased the gods—and sometimes it took very little—the consequences were awesome: droughts, storms, wars, earthquakes, volcanoes, epidemics. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You can tell it was built for a larger gathering, and perhaps it held one before the pox epidemic. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z On our flight to Moscow, Farmer told me that the World Bank was planning to make a loan to Russia to help prevent a full-blown TB epidemic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “That’s why they put the sign up. Herbalist is afraid it may be contagious. That an epidemic could come.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z If it had not been for the epidemic, the Spaniards would have faced a united empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To advance his case, Tisquantum told other Indians that the foreigners had hidden away casefuls of the agent that caused the epidemic, and that he could manipulate them into unleashing it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If Pizarro had been amazed by the size of Tawantinsuyu after the terrible epidemic and war, how many people had been living there to begin with? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They tried to reach Kinshasa by radio, to tell Karl Johnson and the others that the epidemic had already peaked. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Think of it. Dr. Rush has seen two or three epidemics in his life. The French doctors came from the West Indies, where they treat yellow fever every year. Surely their experience is more valuable.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So life went on in Philadelphia, in many ways changed forever, in many ways sadly the same as before the yellow fever epidemic began. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Social epidemics work in exactly the same way. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Pneumococcal pneumonia after influenza infection—the epidemic within the epidemic—was of such concern that the ministry had deployed teams of scientists to study the bacterium and develop a vaccine against it. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Instead, what must be the main reason for the failure of lethal crowd epidemics to arise in the Americas becomes clear when we pause to ask a simple question. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This idea of crime as an epidemic, it must be said, is a little strange. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Cholera epidemics come at longer intervals, the 1991 Peruvian epidemic being the first one to reach the New World during the 20th century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It centered on one goal—ending the childhood obesity epidemic within a generation. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The small population size of tribelets explains not only why they can’t sustain epidemics introduced from the outside, but also why they never could evolve epidemic diseases of their own to give back to visitors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Eliza promised we would find my mother or learn her fate as soon as the epidemic was over. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All four of these traits apply to what Americans think of as the familiar acute epidemic diseases of childhood, including measles, rubella, mumps, pertussis, and smallpox. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Here, then, is the explanation for why Paul Revere’s midnight ride started a word-of-mouth epidemic and William Dawes’s ride did not. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What makes people like Mark Alpert so important in starting epidemics? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All these numbers are at best rough approximations, but their implications are clear: the epidemics killed about one out of every five people on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If you look closely at epidemic ideas or messages, as often as not the elements that make them sticky turn out to be as small and as seemingly trivial as Wunderman s gold box. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But that was before the epidemic, when Massasoit had the option of expelling them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z With its fine roads and great population movements, Tawantinsuyu was perfectly positioned for a major epidemic. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It had come from France in epidemic proportions just that year. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Worst thing in the world to get rid of,” she said, and told us about the epidemic at the girls’ school in Kinvara when she was a boarder. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z In the second stage a former animal pathogen evolves to the point where it does get transmitted directly between people and causes epidemics. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Contagiousness, in other words, is an unexpected property of all kinds of things, and we have to remember that, if we are to recognize and diagnose epidemic change. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Without inoculation, she said, the smallpox epidemic could easily have handed the colonies back to the British. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The tally cannot be taken as exact, but the fact remains; a single epidemic killed more than three of every four indigenous Siberians in that area. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The other two are nouns as well as adjectives: epidemic refers to something widespread in a particular community or population, and pandemic to something that has spread to an entire country, continent, or beyond. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to contain the epidemic, authorities sealed off the area. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But it’s only in the rare instance that such an exchange ignites a word-of-mouth epidemic. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, so many soldiers in the Continental army fell during the epidemic that revolutionary leaders feared that the disease would bring an end to their revolt. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z So-called epidemic diseases, though, produce no cases for a long time, then a whole wave of cases, then no more cases again for a while. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The ones causing the epidemic to grow — the ones who were infecting two and three and four and five others with their disease — were the remaining 168. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The crack epidemic, which had ravaged African American communities in places like Detroit and New York, was only just reaching Chicago, but its course was no less destructive. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She stayed awake keeping watch nightly in an epidemic and chanted during air raids. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z To Merle Tuve he had lamented an “epidemic of trouble, connected with raising the power output.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But he was also — and this is the second of the three kinds of people who control word-of-mouth epidemics — a Maven. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The final stage of this evolution is represented by the major, long-established epidemic diseases confined to humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z An epidemic of pneumonia raged through the wet, narrow streets, and for a week Doctor Copeland slept at odd hours, fully clothed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z We talk about “epidemics of violence” or crime waves, but it’s not clear that we really believe that crime follows the same rules of epidemics as, say, Hush Puppies did, or Paul Revere’s ride. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Richard Harwood, the Post's ombudsmen, eventually admitted the paper had lost “a proper sense of perspective” due to such a “hyperbole epidemic.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Before the yellow fever epidemic, even the doctors who disagreed with Rush on medical matters would have defended him against Cobbett’s irrational assaults. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It would be a mistake, however, to think that Connectors are the only people who matter in a social epidemic. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They lived through that epidemic, which took, what? ten percent of the world’s population. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z After the Revolution, in a time of epidemics, he was chosen health officer of Boston, and coroner of Suffolk County. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Similar epidemics marked the histories of Tonga, Hawaii, and other Pacific islands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Starting the previous year, the worst influenza epidemic in history had struck the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z As the HIV/AIDS epidemic spread around the world, and a wave of fear and superstition with it, Haitians were quickly labeled a “risk group.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “I’ve been thinking about that a long time. Many people died of cholera, not just our family. I believe Rosa was right: Goré Mtoko couldn’t be responsible for a whole epidemic.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Criminals do not, in other words, sound like the kind of people who could be swept up by the infectious winds of an epidemic. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By the end of 1951 the world was in the midst of the biggest polio epidemic in history. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The strains of flu that circulate at the beginning of each winter’s flu epidemic are quite different from the strains of flu that circulate at the end. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In a social epidemic, Mavens are data banks. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Among animals, too, epidemic diseases require large, dense populations and don’t afflict just any animal: they’re confined mainly to social animals providing the necessary large populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Within a year of the first European settlers’ arrival at Sydney, in 1788, corpses of Aborigines who had died in epidemics became a common sight. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Farmer began paying closer attention to Russia, to wherever there was the specter of a possible epidemic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z While forty thousand people have been vaccinated since the epidemic began, the ultimate goal is to inoculate a hundred thousand Haitians. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But obviously, for that epidemic to take off, the restaurant itself had to remain a good restaurant. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Related: War against harm: Ithaca's mayor is leading the charge against the heroin epidemic Now her nights are spent telling anyone who will listen about heroin addiction – at fundraisers, charity events, lectures, politicians’ offices. Love couldn't break heroin's grip as sons became casualties of epidemic 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Here’s the New York Times: “Before the epidemic, Brazil recorded only about 150 cases of microcephaly a year.” “We can’t have any confidence in the numbers …”: Brazil’s dodgy data on microcephaly 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Carbohydrates are causing an obesity epidemic and fats silt up your arteries. Is too much protein bad for you? 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z According to a mental health professional, social networks have actually become smaller in recent years, resulting in a quiet epidemic of loneliness. Radio: The Reunion takes us back to the birth of Doctor Who 2013-04-06T05:00:07Z In São Paulo, young men account for the most accentuated spread of the epidemic. 'Health workers are too scared to enter': the fight to treat HIV in a São Paulo favela 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z “The epidemic of tobacco deaths will progress inexorably throughout the world until and unless tobacco control is recognised as an immediate priority for development, investment, and research.” Smoking causes one in ten deaths globally, major new study reveals 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z The Deshler-Morris House, also known as the Germantown White House since George Washington came as president to escape a yellow fever epidemic, then liked it so much he spent the next summer there. Frugal Traveler: Off-the-Beaten Path History in Philadelphia 2011-05-03T20:50:37Z Our predominant cultural imperatives about mood, though surely well-intentioned, are worsening the depression epidemic. You’re making your depression worse: Self-help is bringing us down 2014-02-16T16:30:00Z Storr suggests that the self-esteem fad, which went mainstream in the late 1980s and 1990s, evolved into the epidemic of digitally enhanced self-absorption from which we are said to suffer today. How We Got to Be So Self-Absorbed: The Long Story 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z The city of Amsterdam is leading the world in ending the obesity epidemic, thanks to a radical and wide-reaching programme which is getting results even among the poorest communities that are hardest to reach. Amsterdam's solution to the obesity crisis: no fruit juice and enough sleep 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Many rural communities view Ebola with much the same terror and misunderstanding as westerners did when the Aids epidemic began and have sometimes attacked overstretched health officials struggling to contain the epidemic. Ebola outbreak sparks states of emergency in Liberia and Sierra Leone 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Even before the pandemic, I’d been interested in exploring the epidemic of loneliness. Katie Couric Likes Books on Paper, and Articles Onscreen 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z “We Were Here” is an unblinking chronology of the epidemic, recounted by five people who lived through it and watched countless friends and lovers die. | 'We Were Here': ?We Were Here,? a Documentary About AIDS in San Francisco - Review 2011-09-08T23:58:13Z I wanted to ask you, what do you think our country should have learned from the crack epidemic and apply it to this opioid crisis? Netflix's "Painkiller" puts a face on the "greedy evil" at the root of America's opioid crisis 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z Let's leave aside for a moment the whole "obesity epidemic" – though last time I checked, fat wasn't contagious – and its attendant health concerns. Lionel Shriver: 'If you're thin, you are a kook; if you're fat, you're a failure' 2013-05-11T07:00:27Z The hospital is particularly well suited due to its long history of being on the front lines of epidemics and emerging public health threats. What makes a hospital “Ebola ready” 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z Boas replied: “Racial prejudices seem at the present time to be epidemic all over the world, and we are not by any means free of it here.” This Atlas of Art and Memory Is a Wonder of the Modern World 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z I am a public health researcher who studies and teaches about the factors underlying the obesity epidemic. Fixing the global childhood obesity epidemic begins with making healthy choices the easier choices 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z The violence against women epidemic in this country; I want someone who is going to look at that. "Don't hang out with mean people": One comic's mission to fight sexist, racist, and ableist trolls 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z This is the neighborhood where the two men were raised, coming of age during the crack epidemic of the 1980s and ’90s. From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The ad, created by the National Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse, sought to “raise awareness about the heroin and prescription painkiller epidemic in the St. Louis area.” “That’s how you got addicted to heroin”: The strangest Super Bowl spot we’ve ever seen 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Chronic pain is a rising epidemic around the world, especially in girls. Disney, Pixar and Netflix are teaching your children the wrong messages about pain 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z It is tempting to think that any attention paid to the drug epidemic is a blessing, even if it is just a wrong-headed platitude and a seized Camaro. Nancy Reagan and the negative impact of the 'Just Say No' anti-drug campaign 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Related: Asia's Aids epidemic needs urgent action to prevent even more deaths The two-year study found that smartphone dating apps have expanded the options for spontaneous casual sex as never before. Mobile dating apps spur HIV epidemic among Asia’s teenagers, says UN 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Wojnarowicz’s work offers an enchanted look at city life just before the epidemic; Mr. Reynolds assembles chilling news coverage from the height of the crisis. Art Review: The Art Show at Park Avenue Armory 2012-03-08T22:12:26Z Documents submitted in court this year in a lawsuit suggested that, far from being bystanders to the epidemic, family members directed company efforts to mislead the public and doctors about the dangers of abusing OxyContin. Museums Cut Ties With Sacklers as Outrage Over Opioid Crisis Grows 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z She mentions the opioid epidemic, the obesity crisis and poor diets, all of which feel miles away. Wellness is an industry, a journey and now a $5,000-a-year club 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z But the news media seized on the story, and paranoia about Satanic Cults became a national epidemic. Rape Culture is a 'Panic Where Paranoia, Censorship, and False Accusations Flourish' 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z And now he’s back again, right as the true crime documentary epidemic is at its peak. The Confession Killer could well be Netflix's smartest crime saga yet 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z "Painkiller" is the limited series about the Sackler family's role in the rise of the opioid epidemic and the collection of people who benefited. Netflix's "Painkiller" exposes the real drug dealers – and they're not the ones in a jail cell 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z An artist from Bushwick, Sarah Quinter, wrote an open letter to the museum, saying the conference participants engaged in speculation and were part of an “epidemic of gentrification” that endangered the stability of neighborhoods. Brooklyn Museum Puts Artwork From Its Critics on Display 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z But it’s how ordinary it came to seem to Sophia that’s so significant an illustrator of the teenage epidemic of drinking. Is your kid an addict? 2012-09-27T21:25:00Z Another intersecting story line deals with both the current opioid epidemic and a disturbing role that the otherwise tranquil village of Three Pines played during Prohibition. You won’t want Louise Penny’s latest to end 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Experimental drugs are to be fast-tracked into west Africa so that they can be tested and, if they work, save lives in the Ebola epidemic that experts say is spiralling out of control. Ebola epidemic: experimental drugs to be rushed to Africa 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Twitter is also an unparalleled source of distraction and in his fascinating piece, Sam Anderson explores the pros and cons of this surfeit of information and the resulting epidemic of "elective ADHD". The Best Technology Writing 2010, edited by Julian Dibbell ? review 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z Generally, we need to limit exploitation — to tax and even break up the agribusinesses responsible for ecocide and the increasingly global epidemic of chronic disease — and we need to enhance cooperation. Meat Is Murder. But You Know That Already. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The world could see the HIV epidemic rebound dramatically if countries fail to increase funding and expand access to drugs in the next five years, according to a major report. HIV epidemic will rebound dramatically without more funding, warn experts 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z A new "Frontline" follows health officials as they try to combat the ongoing Ebola epidemic in West Africa. TV This Week Sept. 7 - 13: 'Boardwalk Empire' on HBO 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Just as the coronavirus epidemic stopped us from gathering at the Public, it stopped the Apples from gathering for live, in-person dinners. Review: Apple-Picking Time Again, in ‘And So We Come Forth’ 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z At the time, most people, scientists included, believed that the cause of the epidemic was “miasmata,” or foul air. The Other Side of “Broken Windows” 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z And don’t worry about how much this epidemic might cost you; there’s a book called “Surviving Coronavirus on Any Budget.” Analysis | As coronavirus spreads, dubious books about surviving the epidemic proliferate 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z “A building that is ugly, with no fresh air, no dignity or common sense, is a place people will avoid, and this encourages epidemics.” In Haiti, Battling Disease With Open-Air Clinics 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Hansford says this “complete overkill” is especially galling because “Swat teams are targeting black and brown communities” and do not go into white areas plagued by heroin epidemics with the same aggressive tactics. Do Not Resist: new film shows how US police have become an occupying army 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z “I’m absolutely convinced that this epidemic is far from over and will continue to kill a considerable amount of people, so this will definitely end up the biggest ever,” he said. Doctors Without Borders: Ebola ‘out of control’ in W. Africa 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z So, why not read Oliver Sacks's Awakenings , his classic account of how the drug L-dopa awoke victims of the post-first world war encephalitis lethargica epidemic in the late 1960s? Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z The series is about getting to the “after” photo, following a crack epidemic that ravaged the streets in short order. With FX’s ‘Snowfall,’ John Singleton returns to 1980s South Central L.A. 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z At any rate, my inbox was full of readers who believed they had identified the true epidemic: lying women. Perspective | For Robert Foster’s defenders, men are victims and #MeToo is the real villain 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z I believe the United States in general is suffering from a devastating, society-wide epidemic of overconfidence. Beyond “new atheism”: Where do people alienated by the movement’s obnoxious tendencies go from here? 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z At least, it has been on television, which has experienced a near epidemic of clenched jaws and downturned mouths. On TV, a Near Epidemic of Frowns and Clenched Jaws 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Yemen is terminal, afflicted by the largest cholera epidemic in recorded history. Perspective | Was 2017 the end of something or just the beginning? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Ciccarone draws parallels with the early years of the HIV epidemic, including that those affected are vilified by wider society. Why opioid deaths are this generation’s Aids crisis | Mary O’Hara 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Exercises in stand-up autobiography are epidemic in experimental theater. Review: ‘Now I’m Fine,’ Ahamefule J. Oluo’s Take on Himself 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Then Lantern segues into Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of the Albert Camus novel “The Plague,” an allegory about the rise of fascism using an epidemic that hits a certain bull’s-eye in 2021. Theater to Stream: ‘Hamlet’ and a Tracy Letts Triptych 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Toby passionately argues that we are witnessing an epidemic of depression which is the result of a chemical imbalance that can be cured by medication. The Effect - review 2012-11-14T01:20:30Z “Aids patients were the first to educate their doctors about cannabis, when the Aids epidemic spread like wild.” New medical marijuana research could greenlight more uses in treatment 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z The exhibition shows how epidemic disease through history has shaped behavior, warfare, the form of buildings and the infrastructure of cities. Epidemics: A Force for Life-Changing Innovation 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z "Black Mirror" is one of the buzziest Netflix original shows whenever new episodes debut, but does a world plagued by a viral epidemic really need the added existential dread of the science-fiction anthology series? "Black Mirror" creator says the world is too bleak right now for Season 6 to happen 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The cost of treating ill health caused by obesity around the world will top $1.2tn every year from 2025 unless more is done to check the rapidly worsening epidemic, according to new expert estimates. Global cost of obesity-related illness to hit $1.2tn a year from 2025 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z The most thoughtful explanation of what spurred the epidemic has to do with artistic quality. Review | Murder and music coincide in ‘Destroy All Monsters’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z “Survivor Song” tells the story of a viral epidemic that sweeps across Massachusetts, devastating the region. Review | Two new horror novels make sense of our current dystopian reality 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z We are living through an epidemic of loneliness. Feeling lonely? Meet the people who suffered extreme isolation – then found happiness 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z From then on, polio gathered strength; there were epidemics in North America from the 1890s, Scandinavia from the early 1900s and the UK, Africa, Australia over the following 40 years. Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio by Gareth Williams – review 2013-07-17T15:02:02Z First, the epidemic, widely reported in the media over recent months. Teenagers on loneliness: ‘We want to talk to our parents. We need their guidance’ 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z The notion of one bus driver causing an epidemic of lateness may seem ridiculous, but it also reflects a certain logic — chaos theory, maybe, or the law of unintended consequence. Magnus Mills' 'Maintenance of Headway' a satire of bureaucracy 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z But ultimately, the only way to find out if drugs and vaccines against Ebola work is to try them out in an epidemic. Ebola rages in Africa as west agonises over ethics of vaccine and drug testing 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Until HIV is decriminalized, state-sanctioned stigma will continue to perpetuate this deadly epidemic and the mass imprisonment of people of color in the United States.” When being HIV-positive was a crime 2013-04-02T15:15:00Z Federal officials insist that sex trafficking has reached epidemic proportion, with between 100,000 and 300,000 people annually at risk. 4 reasons to decriminalize prostitution 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The movie reminds us that the opioid epidemic impacts every class. Abbi Jacobson Discovers Her Dark Side 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z This is a first-world epidemic, and the movies are sounding the alarm. Brad’s Status: why is cinema obsessed with the dark side of social media? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z The photographs for which she is best known, such as her unsparing portraits of people living with AIDS, taken at the height of the epidemic in the U.S., demonstrate a decidedly outward view. Rosalind Fox Solomon, Inward and Out 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z The epidemic of loneliness has opened up fascinating and lucrative business opportunity. Boyfriends for rent, robots, camming: how the business of loneliness is booming 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z She sees “an epidemic of misogyny in our culture — it’s Silicon Valley, it’s statehouses, it’s everywhere, including now a president who bragged about grabbing p---y.” Perspective | Culture of misogyny makes O’Reilly’s hotline defense nothing short of ridiculous 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z A superstorm and fever epidemic have decimated New York, but the shopkeeper, who is missing half of her jaw, folds with rote acuity. The End Is Near in Two Dystopian Debut Novels 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Morris isn’t optimistic about how the incoming Trump administration will tackle drugs – he foresees an even greater opioid epidemic sweeping the States – but he believes that a change of mindset could reap great rewards. PCP to psychedelic fish: uncover the stories behind the world's strangest drugs 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z “I began to ask the question, ‘What would it be like to memorialize an epidemic that we are in the middle of?’” he said. A ‘Sad Kinship’ as Towns Build Memorials to Victims of Mass Shootings 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z “An epidemic means an infectious disease, which is inaccurate and stigmatising.” How to be alone: ‘I feel most alive when I'm with my own thoughts’ 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z Obesity is an epidemic with one in three Americans overweight and hundreds of thousands die from obesity-related diseases every year. Don’t Call Her a Victim: After Surviving Opioids, Nan Goldin Goes After the Makers 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z “In disaster relief — famine, war, epidemics — the crisis goes on and on and on. There’s no point where you’re finished,” he said. Stress Baking More Than Usual? 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z For a while in the 1990s and early 2000s, pretty female teachers molesting their underage male students seemed like an epidemic. Perspective | America’s confused obsession with Mary Kay Letourneau 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Madonna, who surged to ’80s stardom with hits like “Lucky Star,” “Like a Virgin” and “Material Girl,” began raising awareness about HIV/AIDS during that decade’s epidemic, fighting the HIV stigma and fundraising for research. Madonna, in a TikTok, suggests she’s gay. Her fans aren’t surprised. 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z It was the first major musical memorial to those who had died of AIDS, and it remains the most formidable classical work written in response to the epidemic. Revisiting a Symphonic AIDS Memorial 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Whatever the cause, Rome’s charming world weariness has given way to a cynicism of epidemic proportions. Rome in Ruins 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Since then, the Tanganyika laughter epidemic has captured imaginations the world over. Why laughter makes no sense: The surprising science behind what tickles our funny bones 2014-04-09T22:59:00Z “It was an epidemic, it floated through the air.” How Do You Sing Blind Willie Johnson? 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z For him “two Americans in as many weeks,” Ms. Simonson writes, was something “approaching a nasty epidemic.” Books of The Times: Blending Tea and Hearts 2010-02-22T07:01:00Z While that is happening, he said, “how do we control the epidemic?” UN calls for urgent action to protect young women from HIV/Aids in Africa 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z “We kept hearing more and more about this epidemic that was slowly but fiercely making its way across various parts of the world,” Ms. Leaverton said. Pass the Popcorn and Shhh! The Wedding Is About to Start 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z Army soldier serving in 1917 amid war and a flu epidemic and turns some of his prose into her own verse. Review | Amanda Gorman’s ‘Call Us What We Carry’ is as powerful as ‘The Hill We Climb’ 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Adolescent girls fall in love in the homophobic atmosphere of Nairobi; Tito, a 10-year-old, confronts a villagewide epidemic of literally crippling fear; a Japanese teenager struggles to apologize to the deaf girl he once tormented. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z His cause of death is still debated, but it was likely to have been either the dreaded sweating sickness, a mysterious illness that caused multiple epidemics in the 15th and 16th centuries, or possibly consumption. 10 royal heirs who died before they reigned 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z For his part, Andron likens the crack epidemic to a bomb being dropped. With FX’s ‘Snowfall,’ John Singleton returns to 1980s South Central L.A. 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z A yellow fever epidemic further ravaged the theater, which closed two years later. N.Y.U. Names New Performance Space After Nation’s First Black Theater 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Addiction to opioids - mostly prescription painkillers, heroin and fentanyl - has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. Roseanne dies of opioid overdose as 'The Conners' take over 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Her choice in perspective — combined with the use of the present tense — produces an immediate and urgent portrait of the mounting public health crisis and how the characters’ lives are shaped by the epidemic. An Ominous Sleeping Sickness Paralyzes a Small California Town in ‘The Dreamers’ 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z He continued to make music, joining forces with other African musical heavyweights in 2014 to create the song ‘Africa Stop Ebola’ in the face of the epidemic that killed more than 11,300 people. African music legend Mory Kante dies aged 70 in Guinea 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z The government knew an epidemic was raging through marginalized communities, and public health strategies were available, but government policy reflected indifference and inaction. It’s 1985 all over again: To me, the Reagan years were a time of death — and Trump’s era feels eerily similar 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z The opioid epidemic, as we now know it in America, is confounding, terrifying. Sins of the mother: I blame myself for my son's overdose 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Historically, American prisoners were protected during an epidemic, removed to safer quarters; mass incarceration changed that. Using the Law to Fight Epidemics, for Better and Worse 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games – the final book in the series, Mockingjay, is to be split into two films What began as a trend has become an epidemic. Why Hunger Games 3 will kill one Mockingjay with two stones 2012-07-12T14:54:53Z The obesity epidemic has been linked in part to an increase in added sugar consumption over the past century. WHO’s recommendation against the use of artificial sweeteners for weight loss raises many questions 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z What seems like an isolated incident soon unfolds as a worldwide epidemic. Beware the infectious beasts of 'The Blondes' 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The Wind Rises includes real historical events including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Great Depression and the tuberculosis epidemic which followed. The best animated films for grownups 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Racism in policing is a national epidemic, said Carter, while conceding that “St. Paul does a better job than other folks.” “Sadness, anger, frustration”: The tremors of Philando Castile’s death continue in the Twin Cities 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z This goes to a wider arc borne out by the data, which is that work-related stress is really one of the drivers of this ongoing epidemic of heart disease. Haider Warraich: ‘We do everything in our modern lifestyle to hurt the heart’ 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z United Nations research has found the growing use of mobile dating apps by young gay men is a major factor in a new HIV epidemic among teenagers in Asia, the Guardian can reveal. Mobile dating apps spur HIV epidemic among Asia’s teenagers, says UN 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Baby abduction and trafficking are epidemic in China. The Venice-Toronto Express: Three Films at Two Festivals 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Its graveyard contains one particularly tragic cluster of stones: 13 tiny markers, each of which represents a child killed, before Dickens’s time, in a malaria epidemic. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z Its toxicity, its pervasiveness and wrath, is another epidemic of our time. Review: How Deep Is Your Love? A Ratmansky Ballet Dives In 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z You should be mindful, however, that like much of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro is grappling with an epidemic of violence. It Just Got Easier, and May Soon Be Cheaper, for Americans to Travel to Brazil 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Downey and I once wrote a cold opening about the drug epidemic. Al Franken: My 10 favorite ‘Saturday Night Live’ political sketches 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z It was this misguided embrace of the Living Dead that led to the Zombye epidemic of the 1350s, or as commonly known, the Black Death.” Freakish beauty in alternative history 2013-09-15T16:00:00Z In this context, the dance took on a different tenor and became about survival in the face of an epidemic. Twin documentaries spotlight dance legends Ailey and Jones 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Their juxtaposition reminds us that even an epidemic of unfathomable proportions doesn’t banish a desperate mother and her vanished child from the sphere of our attention. Surviving AIDS, but at What Cost? 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z More than 15 months ago, a toddler came into contact with an infected bat in the Guinean village of Meliandou, which became ground zero of the world’s worst Ebola epidemic. Guinea’s president bears the weight of what Ebola has done to his country 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Experts celebrated it as hopeful news that the Aids epidemic may be slowing in the US. Guarded optimism as HIV infections in US fall by a third over 10 years 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z Anxiety is epidemic — over 40 million Americans struggle with the condition, a number that is surely only growing at the moment — but it’s especially pervasive in pregnancy and the immediate postpartum period. Is Fear the Last Taboo of American Motherhood? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z What do we have now, a mass epidemic of virtual mental illness? Jello Biafra: 'Obama owes Occupy big time' 2013-04-25T15:54:10Z Me: Is there an epidemic of cats killing toilet lids? Perspective | Gene Weingarten: ‘The cat broke the toilet tank lid’ and other likely stories 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z You can see how she would have a field day tackling an epidemic that kept New York residents at home and allowed communication only through masks or video calls. ‘Covid Vortex Anxiety Opera’ Review: Gloom, Zoom and a New Bloom 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z The weight of the epidemic is felt through Emma and Jude’s small social circle. ‘Little Fish’ Review: Do You Remember Love? 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z NFL refused to acknowledge that brain damage in former NFL players is an epidemic ,” according to the suit, “that constitutes a national health crisis.” Family of ex-Bear Duerson sues over suicide 2012-02-23T18:42:00Z It also shows the face of the epidemic: four overweight teens struggling to make the right choices. The Week Ahead: Beer tasting, Viking Fest, Rick Atkinson 2014-05-07T22:17:13Z And in Act II, when a cholera epidemic has broken out, the backdrop is a panorama of sickly, ghostly faces in garish reds and yellows that change color with the stage lighting. Music Review: A Daring Production of 'Lulu' at the Salzburg Festival 2010-08-03T20:47:00Z Surrealism was more like an epidemic: an ambient, variable, self-propagating language of refusal that artists like these could direct as needed. Getting a Grip on Unreality 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s a fascinating, scrappy time capsule of queer life in post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS epidemic America that chronicles the revelry and protest that greeted the modern gay liberation movement. Celebrating Pride on Film 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z The only real way out of our epidemic of despair is for all of us, together, to begin to meet those human needs – for deep connection, to the things that really matter in life. Is everything you think you know about depression wrong? 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Many well-educated professional women wrote in after that piece saying that they too often witnessed or sensed that almost epidemic sort of hostility coming their way — or toward other women like them. Motherlode Blog: Is 'Choice' Less Accepted for Mothers? 2011-10-18T21:32:08Z It’s not lost on Beatty that while the heroin epidemic is getting more attention now, it wasn’t so high on the priority list when areas such as Kensington were bearing the brunt of it. What happened to Todd: retracing my brother's steps to understand addiction 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z The Brazilian epidemic peaked in March, when the government identified more than 8,000 new cases a week, now down to 200 a week. Review: ‘Zika’ Tracks the Trajectory of an Epidemic 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z My point is that in taking this stance of less than zero tolerance, you courageously stood up against the mounting national criticism of an epidemic of creeping lefty political correctness at America’s liberal arts colleges. Gene Weingarten: A mea culpa (no offense to the Romans!) 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z "Is it time to fast track those with clear safety data in humans for use in this epidemic?" Ebola rages in Africa as west agonises over ethics of vaccine and drug testing 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Two nations sharing an open, unpoliced border, with two such opposed policies on human bondage, would surely have provoked an epidemic of escapes, assisted escapes, spies, and mutual antagonism, with rampant bloodshed. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z How beautiful the quilts are, he says, and how unbearable it is to commemorate an epidemic with beauty. A French Writer Who Blurred the Line Between Candor and Provocation 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z It instead prompts an epidemic of suicides, since people who encounter mildly troubling problems no longer see a reason to try to work through them — why bother when death is just a transition? Review: ‘The Discovery’ of an Afterlife, Then the Suicides 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z That image will show alongside photos that document top news stories, such as the conflict in Ukraine, the Ebola epidemic and fighting in Gaza. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Silica dust from the exploded coal seams contributes to an epidemic of silicosis and asthma and heavy metals from the mining process poison wells, possibly causing an abnormally high rate of cancer in local residents. Robert Kennedy Jr. says West Virginia coal industry out of control in documentary 2011-07-14T21:09:07Z Lawmakers wandered into this environment of fear, creating laws to fight an epidemic of a virus that respected no laws and understood no boundaries. When being HIV-positive was a crime 2013-04-02T15:15:00Z The august Edinburgh International Festival is not immune to an epidemic of Shakespeare fever that seems to be erupting worldwide in 2016, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. Edinburgh Festival to Feature Shakespeare and a 'Menagerie' Return 1462-02-28T05:00:00Z During the 2009 swine flu epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control received a great deal of praise for its use of Twitter to keep the public up to date. Your doctor is complaining about you on Facebook 2013-02-21T17:26:00Z As he noted in an article in American Scientist, “The Tanganyikan laughter epidemic is a dramatic example of the infectious power of laughter.” Why laughter makes no sense: The surprising science behind what tickles our funny bones 2014-04-09T22:59:00Z Was it New Labour's failure to get a grip on London's crack epidemic? Looking back on New Labour: Peter Akinti 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z Amazon is not the only source of questionable books related to the current epidemic. Analysis | As coronavirus spreads, dubious books about surviving the epidemic proliferate 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The face of America’s eviction epidemic belongs to mothers with children. No place like home: America’s eviction epidemic 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Then the company built a system so poor it provoked a series of cholera epidemics. When Manhattan Was Mannahatta: A Stroll Through the Centuries 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z “We hold them responsible for the opioid epidemic … It sets a precedent nationwide.” 'A battle worth waging': family whose son died in opioids crisis celebrate Oklahoma settlement 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z The latest study, he adds, suggests that poor access to timely surgery is a “forgotten epidemic” in Africa. Patients in Africa twice as likely to die after an operation than global average, report shows 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z There’s widespread agreement in the public health community that the near-ubiquitous availability of cheap, calorie-dense, nutrition-challenged, irresistibly delicious food plays a significant role in our epidemic of obesity and its attendant diseases. Perspective | Labeling processed foods as ‘clean’ makes us feel safe. And that’s a problem. 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z “We have survived the flu epidemic of 1918, and fought in four or five deadly United States wars. But at last we will be destroyed by a collection of tedious words.” Review | With ‘The Night Watchman,’ Louise Erdrich rediscovers her genius 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z A recent report called our rates an “epidemic.” 8 things America gets terribly wrong about sex 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z The flu epidemic makes a brief appearance in “True Grit,” and it’s exactly the sort of historical subject upon which he could converse with the fluency and anecdote of someone who’d survived it personally. Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z On 2 February, at the cusp of Valentine’s Day, the Los Angeles sheriff’s department warned of the “growing criminal epidemic” of romance scams during a community meeting called Love Hurts. The internet scammer who loved me (not) 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Also on the line-up is The Flu, a disaster movie about an influenza epidemic that had a similarly strong reaction in South Korea last August. Korean festival brings hits to London 2013-11-06T16:36:22Z Earlier this summer, my firm was hired by a consumer company to study the underlying causes of the epidemic. The Sisu Social: Can Finns Teach The World To Hang Tough? 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Bedlam, by Nell Leyshon, is a fictional account of the oldest psychiatric hospital in Western Europe and is inspired by the gin epidemic of the 18th Century. 2010-02-15T17:28:00Z This was not the case in the first half of the 20th century when a series of polio epidemics affected hundreds of thousands of children across the world. A jab for Elvis helped America beat polio. Now doctors have recruited him again… 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z I ask him about the younger generation of users and his take on the prescription pill epidemic. Teen heroin use on the rise 2012-08-31T15:24:00Z Kramer's historic play about the beginning of an epidemic that has killed millions won the Tony 26 years after it was first mounted at the Public Theater. Tony awards, 2011: Big winners and Northwest connections 2011-06-13T04:29:05Z After witnessing a steady stream of men and women — who were young and seemingly healthy — come into his pharmacy with high-dose prescriptions for OxyContin, he sensed the opioid epidemic long before it gained nationwide attention. What's new on Netflix in February, from "Altered Carbon" to "Narcos: Mexico" 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z During the occupation, a typhus epidemic claimed a younger sister, and almost everything my family owned was taken from them. My grandfather was a Nazi. Our family's story of complicity shows where the road to extremism leads 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z “A decade later,” she continued, “we realized that connection should be its own product. We are modern medicine for the loneliness epidemic.” SoulCycle Without the Bike: Here Comes Peoplehood 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z And he argued that the obesity epidemic is hampering the American spirit of problem-solving and ingenuity. Jamie Oliver: food for kids a civil rights issue 2011-02-26T20:16:05Z Several individual lodge operators, in despair when Reuters contacted them in October, also said business improved since experts started talking about the beginning of the end of the epidemic. As Ebola 'fear factor' eases, African tourism edges back 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z City government — often disorganized, sometimes plagued with corruption — had gathered almost no data on the epidemic in over five years. Burger King’s bacon sundae 2012-06-13T14:21:00Z When any movie tries to create nuance over an issue that is an epidemic in our culture, we all need to stand up. Hollywood's rape culture is our culture 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z It wouldn’t be making a giant leap to link eating alone with the current loneliness epidemic. Table for one: how eating alone is radically changing our diets 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z The report’s lead author, Thomas Curran of the University of Bath, fears a “hidden epidemic of perfectionism”. ‘My brain feels like it’s been punched’: the intolerable rise of perfectionism 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z "The June 26 ruling does not change the fact that sugary drink consumption is a key driver of the obesity epidemic," she said. State high court rules NYC ban on large sodas is illegal 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Infidelity is an epidemic in American society; the Muslim community is no exception. The sacrilegious love affair I couldn’t resist 2014-02-02T00:00:00Z In the field, it was contagious and sometimes occurred as epidemics among the troops, manifesting itself in cases of fever, loss of appetite, unstoppable sobbing and a fear of falling asleep. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z Friedman produced prescient segments on the minimum wage and the oxytocin epidemic. Jena Friedman: the outrageous talkshow host women have been waiting for 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z While KPG believes his duty is to divert his viewers rather than lecture, he also offers some cautionary words on the epidemic. Under coronavirus curfew, West African bard offers escape via live-stream 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Coincidentally, the museum has an exhibition that recalls a mass shutdown of theaters in the city during the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918. From Coughing Fits to Closings, Cultural World Girds for Coronavirus 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z By that point, the epidemic had spread beyond the school. Why laughter makes no sense: The surprising science behind what tickles our funny bones 2014-04-09T22:59:00Z This is an article about the ongoing and very real opioid epidemic in this country, and what a very few brave people are trying to do about it, no thanks to them. Don’t Call Her a Victim: After Surviving Opioids, Nan Goldin Goes After the Makers 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z She’s made combating the problem part of her platform, and in remarks at the top of the event, she urged the students to consider fighting the addiction epidemic “an opportunity to save lives.” Melania Trump discusses the opioid epidemic, media coverage and those red Christmas trees 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Dozens of states have followed in the last two years, as the opioid epidemic has claimed increasing numbers of lives. North Carolina reverses thousands of drug overdoses amid opioid crisis 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Addiction and xenophobia begin to operate as parallel social epidemics, and it’s here that the novel outgrows its own boundaries, becoming stranger and more robust. In Two New Novels, the Trouble Is Academic — and All Too Real 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z And he also wrote prodigiously: articles about friends dying, politicians ignoring the epidemic, early drugs that largely failed. ‘How to Survive a Plague’ Provides a Silver Lining on AIDS 2012-12-12T22:43:16Z It also takes on the issues of addiction and the opioid epidemic. Zach Braff on Florence Pugh singing and the "Garden State" Easter egg in his new movie 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The first half of this shortish novel – its 280 pages have very generous margins – introduces Bucky in the middle of a summer polio epidemic, a life-changing event before a vaccine was developed. Nemesis by Philip Roth 2010-10-02T09:03:00Z “He identified with Don Quixote, an old man with dementia who thought he could save the world from an epidemic of incivility simply by acting like a knight.” 'The Newsroom' recap: Farewell to Charlie and series viewers 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z After the 1484 epidemic of bubonic plague, Leonardo designed a multilayered city that would not spread disease as efficiently as medieval Italian cities did. MOHAI exhibit lets you test some of Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z And the next, talk show hosts, women’s magazines, Hollywood, health experts, the first lady and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg sound the alarm about the obesity epidemic. Women on TV Step Off the Scale 2012-10-11T12:00:00Z But with all the looking forward and looking backward it's amazing there isn't a whiplash epidemic among thirtysomethings, although it does explain the dizzy stupidity of some of the sentiment. The cassette Walkman has gone, and I must move on 2010-10-26T18:02:00Z Still, he said, the importance of local journalism is underscored now as an even more polarized nation faces the current health and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus epidemic. Perspective | 50 years ago, a local newspaper dominated the story of the Kent State tragedy. Could that still happen? 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Her childhood battle with polio informs "Nemesis," in which Roth imagined an epidemic in New Jersey in the 1940s. Roth documentary raises new questions at 80 2013-03-11T14:38:08Z By the time the epidemic ran its course late that year, 20 innocent people were dead. Stacy Schiff's history of Salem trials and Alex Mar's book on modern pagans offer bewitching reading 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The National Institutes of Health calls it a flat out “epidemic.” We may never know what drove Aaron Alexis to commit the acts he did on Monday morning. PTSD doesn’t cause mass shootings 2013-09-17T14:37:00Z “Blindness,” which I saw Sunday, is the tale, based on a novel by Jose Saramago, of an epidemic that renders an entire nation blind, except for the narrator. Perspective | I wondered what it would be like to be vaccinated and back in a theater. My panic lifted as soon as the lights went down. 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z The epidemic can be stopped, said Liu, but only if governments send in their biohazard teams and equipment. Ebola outbreak: call to send in military to West Africa to help curb epidemic 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z The coronavirus epidemic forced Bouchet and Joal - a fellow gynaecologist at Geneva’s university hospital - to spend less time than usual in the maternity unit, where stays as well as visits are limited. Geneva baby's arrival shows life goes on amid coronavirus chaos 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z And when it comes to free expression, an epidemic of knee-jerk apologies makes for a pretty sorry state of affairs. Why Soulja Boy shouldn't be sorry 2011-09-07T15:08:00Z The deaths, usually involved with the crack epidemic of the 1980s, soon became too many — and Mr. Sacasa’s customers began requesting more hopeful imagery. These Images Tell the Stories of American Blackness 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z The tragedy of losing his mother while he was a child during the influenza epidemic impacted profoundly on his life and work. Arts centre honours Clockwork Orange author 2011-02-15T11:49:16Z Genealogy, she counseled, isn’t just about looking for ancestors who were historically noteworthy; the most remarkable fact of history is simply survival, through mass migrations and economic depressions and flu epidemics and so on. Television: Is Your Family Tree Just a Shrub? 2010-03-03T23:04:00Z Our Flemish upstart therefore had to invent an iconography for the woman who stopped the epidemic. The Saint Who Stopped an Epidemic Is on Lockdown at the Met 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z “I completely understand the extreme sentiment, given the world is in hysteria over this epidemic,” Ms. Nguyen said. Fashion’s Coronavirus ‘Patient Zero’ Speaks 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Episodes investigating the obesity epidemic and the problematic history of the body mass index led the podcast to its first million downloads on the listening app last month. Breaking Down the ‘Wellness-Industrial Complex,’ an Episode at a Time 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The film chronicles him trying to get a bill passed that declares youth violence a public health epidemic. Oscar documentary shorts: A guide to "St. Louis Superman" and "Walk Run Cha-Cha" 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z He then listed the many jobs Donald Trump has given to his son-in-law, including brokering peace in the Middle East and solving the opioid epidemic in the US. John Oliver on Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner: president 'can't even get nepotism right' 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Combating the childhood obesity epidemic means making healthy eating an easier choice for children and families than staying inside and eating processed foods. Fixing the global childhood obesity epidemic begins with making healthy choices the easier choices 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z The access Navai gets is remarkable: she meets addicted families, children dependent on opium after taking it as a painkiller, and the doctors and social workers addressing the epidemic. Tonight's TV highlights: Unreported World 2010-10-07T23:05:00Z The obesity epidemic continues to rise in the United States—as well as across the globe—contributing to premature deaths from cancer, cardiovascular disease, and many more life-threatening conditions. Obesity could be more dangerous than smoking 2013-02-01T19:54:00Z However, this just maintains a food system which has given us an obesity epidemic, left millions malnourished, contributes to climate change and is the main factor in the loss of biodiversity. This year, skyrocketing food prices could lead to up to 1 million additional deaths 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z I urged her to climb with me through the low brush of western Provence to see the results of an epidemic that had struck the region nearly 200 years ago. How Plagues Shape the Landscape 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z It’s his conviction that we are in the midst of a “catastrophic sleep-loss epidemic”, the consequences of which are far graver than any of us could imagine. The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life: the new sleep science 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Philip Roth's "Nemisis," an account of the lingering guilt left by a New Jersey polio epidemic, topped the list. Alzheimer's murder mystery wins medical lit prize 2011-11-09T20:23:10Z Macy began investigating the drug epidemic in 2012, as it seeped into the suburbs around her adopted hometown, Roanoke, Va., where she worked for 20 years as a reporter at The Roanoke Times. The Worst Drug Crisis in American History 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z For the next 75 minutes, the audience members heard of a city plagued by an epidemic of blindness. Performing Arts Make a Cautious Return in New York 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Decades of stigma, epidemic and state persecution haven’t killed leather, but the feeling that the scene – or at least its physical spaces – is in decline is widespread. Why is the gay leather scene dying? 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z In the 19th century it caused a veritable epidemic of Egyptomania, which infected Art Deco design in the 20th century, along with scores of scary movies, from “The Mummy” of 1932 to of 1999. Art Review: A Pharaoh Lords Over the Met as a 10-Year Houseguest 2011-08-22T15:48:51Z Once a thriving industrial town a few miles from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Braddock was decimated by the collapse of the steel industry in the 1970s and culturally devastated by the crack-cocaine epidemic in the ’80s. Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier’s 2013-12-20T05:00:00Z The health secretary, Matt Hancock, said the vaccine was potentially another breakthrough against the epidemic in the UK. Novavax Covid vaccine shown to be nearly 90% effective in UK trial 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Saudi Arabia breathed a sign of relief on Monday as the haj pilgrimage neared its close without the militant attacks or deadly epidemics that threatened to upset the huge annual Muslim journey of faith. Saudi Arabia relieved as well-protected haj nears close 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z How much were you thinking about what has been called Britain’s “loneliness epidemic” when you were writing the show? In ‘This Way Up,’ Aisling Bea Lets Everyone Be Complex 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The Big Silence7pm, BBC2 Abbot Christopher Jamison of The Monastery fame thinks the world beyond Worth Abbey suffers from "an epidemic of busyness". Tonight's TV highlights: The Big Silence 2010-10-21T23:04:00Z He’s the most devoted anti-capitalist in American cinema, and whether he’s taking on strippers or hookers or a worldwide flu epidemic or the international drug trade, you have to see his work in that context. “Magic Mike”: Channing Tatum’s stripper romance 2012-06-27T21:10:00Z In the face of epidemic disease, a city loses the veneer of normal routines. A plague in both these novels: why does disease make such infectious fiction? 2011-01-12T17:28:16Z It's hard for me to imagine that so many people in that town, especially the ones responsible for regulation, allowed an epidemic to persist. In solving his own son's murder, "The Pharmacist" also took on the opioid epidemic 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, the bulk of the play is devoted to watching the righteous folks of Slurry succumb, both instantly and oh-so-slowly, to an epidemic of soul-sapping greed. Review: A Long Night as Tony Kushner Revisits ‘The Visit’ 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z In fact, people of all genders are experiencing sexual violence in epidemic proportions. My rapist asked me to pray for him; I did what it took to stay alive 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Fox tackles Black Lives Matter and the police violence epidemic next month with Shots Fired, a 10-part miniseries about a North Carolina town rocked by a racially charged shooting. From gay rights to Black Lives Matter: why network TV suddenly got serious 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z The New York Times published an opinion piece by Richard A. Friedman, a psychiatrist, which addressed an “alarming” “suicide epidemic.” Clicks over ethics: Mainstream media’s coverage of suicide is careless, even dangerous 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z “But if you’re black and poor, the heroin epidemic has been around.” The War on Drugs is rigged: Now that the face of addiction is white, will anything change? 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Such changes might be cultural, but could also be linked to fears about the safety of penetrative sex in the wake of the Aids epidemic. Michael Douglas: oral sex caused my cancer 2013-06-02T20:11:00Z It was like a scene from a movie not about urban unrest but about a viral epidemic — the stadium under quarantine, hermetically sealed from the city and its dangers. Orioles-White Sox game: Baltimore's urban stadium becomes no-fans' land 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z “This problem predates President Trump and the epidemic by 20 years,” Foxhall said. Perspective | The Trump administration is muzzling government scientists. It’s essential to let them speak candidly to the press again. 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z "Crime is an epidemic in every major city across the nation," Ebanks said. Essence Fest kicks off Thursday with youth acts 2012-07-03T18:12:08Z And in the UK, in a loneliness epidemic, half a million older people go at least five days a week without seeing or touching a soul. No hugging: are we living through a crisis of touch? 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Heavy rainfalls just before an autumn harvest have triggered major rot epidemics with significant losses to growers in three of Tasmania's last five growing seasons. What was behind Australia’s potato shortage? Wet weather and hard-to-control diseases 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Ubiquitous and exaggerated warnings about an obesity epidemic is causing “fatism” and “sizeism,” discrimination against those who are overweight. ArtsBeat: Thinking Cap: The Weight Panic 2011-07-12T15:30:38Z “I call it the invisible epidemic,” Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, a clinician and researcher at New York University, explained over coffee at a Dominican restaurant in the Bronx, where he was raised. 'Invisible epidemic': progress against HIV leaves young Latino men behind 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z What I didn’t understand at the time was that these new ostentatious developments were a product not of some epidemic of vulgarity but of the larger economic changes in the world. Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z Yesterday morning, White House press secretary Josh Earnest actually had to answer a reporter’s question about how the administration is addressing the clown epidemic. Don’t fear the creeper: Those weird clowns are just a social delusion 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Davis’s account untangles the scientific advances, international conflicts and cultural currents that shaped this catastrophic event, ending with a call for robust public-health systems to combat future epidemics. Review | Best new children’s and YA books to read this month 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Experts list a number of reasons for this including a loneliness epidemic that's been deemed a public health crisis. Secrets of longevity can be taught, and "conservative cities have been better" at adopting them 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z The Aids epidemic had hit Sydney and sex workers were all being labelled as “carriers”. The future of sex work – a photo essay 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z In the US, from 1916 onwards, each summer brought an epidemic of polio in some part of the nation. The man in the iron lung 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Do you think the opiate epidemic is here to stay or is there a vanishing point in sight? Sam Quinones outlines the path of addiction from painkiller to heroin 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z When it debuted in 1985 as a stage play by activist Larry Kramer, it was an alarm bell for a fire fully blazing, demanding that people pay attention and unresponsive governments fight the epidemic. REVIEW: The Normal Heart 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z I met Beatty at a dinner next to the courthouse in Media, Paennsylvania, the seat of Delaware County which that has has been hit hard by the heroin epidemic. What happened to Todd: retracing my brother's steps to understand addiction 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Few people personified the epidemic’s long history in America more than Cox. Life on the frontline of the Aids epidemic | David France 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z “This epidemic is undermining our military and its ability to attract our nation’s best,” Kendzior said. 'It savaged my life': military sexual assault survivors fighting to become visible 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z I found the beginnings of an answer to the epidemic of meaningless work – in Baltimore. Is everything you think you know about depression wrong? 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z “The crack epidemic waned but heroin came in. The sub-prime loans disaster actually started here. We are just starting to come out of that – and now we have this new political situation…” Moonlight’s writer Tarell Alvin McCraney: 'the story needed to be out there' 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z He died in 1918, on the eve of a Memorial Day parade, likely one of the many victims of the Spanish-flu epidemic. An Immigrant Named Trump 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z That yet-to-happen history involves an epidemic that causes women to drift through multiple dimensions of time. Review: ‘ETLE and the Anders’ Is a Sarah A.O. Rosner Take on Feminism 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z It’s the story of an epidemic; it’s also the story of a newspaper. How Painkiller Pushers Took Over Coal Country 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z But the pandemic forced the Theater District into an extensive darkness on March 12 of last year, as New York was quickly becoming the epicenter of the epidemic in the United States. Bruce Springsteen Reopens Broadway, Ushering In Theater’s Return 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Dogged fealty to immutable traditions, above all funeral practices that insisted upon the ritual washing of the dead, had condemned the region to an epidemic of potentially biblical proportions. Best practice 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Despite more than a decade of widespread attention on happiness and the benefits of positive psychology, there is an epidemic of unhappiness in children and teens. Why Kids Who Believe in Something Are Happier and Healthier 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z All of this connects to the mental health epidemic that's going on with young people today. Rainn Wilson doesn't hold back: "Here's the guy from 'The Office' talking about suffering and death" 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z The book sheds light on the country’s history, describing civil war, the Ebola epidemic and the ordinary women who enabled Sirleaf’s victories. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Since then, during what really does feel like an epidemic of blindness, it keeps haunting me, stalking me. The Best Book Jill Lepore Ever Got as a Present Is One She Hates 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Last week, Trump announced an intention to declare a national state of emergency to address the opioid epidemic. Teen drug overdose rate in US rose 20% in 2015 after years of decline 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z In the ’30s, there was an influenza epidemic, so the whole camp died. An Adventurer’s Relics, and His Living Collection 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z As one would expect, their arrested development has left them ill prepared for a nationwide opioid epidemic. The Trouble With the Troubled Teen Industry 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z This is the portrait of an “epidemic of invisibility” in Hollywood described by researchers in a study released on Monday of more than 400 movies and scripted television series from 2014 and 2015. Hollywood’s Inclusion Problem Extends Beyond the Oscars, Study Says 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z That new style emerged in the 1990s after many of Napa Valley’s vineyards were replanted during the phylloxera epidemic. For some Napa winemakers, bigger isn’t necessarily better 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Like Philip Roth’s 2010 novel “Nemesis,” it also encompasses the polio epidemic that raged through the country in those days, an epidemic that will have a profound effect on Crowley’s central characters. Review | John Crowley continues an uncharacteristically prolific period with the singular ‘And Go Like This’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z She believes we are now having a massive delayed reaction to the epidemic. Instagram's Aids memorial: ‘History does not record itself’ 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z The opioid epidemic has also contributed to the uptick, with women who use drugs more likely to engage in risky sex and less likely to get proper treatment. Nearly 1,000 babies were born with syphilis in the US in 2017, report finds 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z In Saramago’s novel, a man inexplicably goes blind and his affliction spreads until it becomes an epidemic. ‘Blindness’ Review: Listening to the Sound of Theater Again 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Specialized medical phrases that have become part of the national vocabulary during the outbreak, such as epidemic curve, immune surveillance, and herd immunity, have also been added. Merriam-Webster adds new coronavirus-related words, updates definitions amid pandemic 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z He had graphs and tables and metrics illustrating the progress of the epidemic and he updated them daily. Pater Familiar: Watching Andrew Cuomo's pandemic briefings finally let me grieve my father 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z They kept their water supply and their waste management far apart, and rarely had epidemics of typhoid or cholera. Why the modern bathroom is a wasteful, unhealthy design 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z The epidemic has arrived at the camp, and Bucky thinks, “Who brought polio here if not me?” Books of The Times: When Polio Disrupted the Playground 2010-10-04T17:16:00Z But he did little to help the epidemic’s largely gay victims. The AIDS crisis in America... 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z “The ongoing global obesity epidemic could partially explain the observed change in age at pubertal onset assessed as age at thelarche,” the authors write. Girls beginning puberty almost a year earlier than in 1970s 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z As we were talking about before, the epidemic of violence against trans women of color continues. "Disclosure" director Sam Feder on the trans TV experience: "People don't know what they don't know" 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z In this light, the number of pain sufferers is stunning and indicates that it is a major epidemic. The science of suffering: Why chronic pain is so difficult to treat 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z One might think an epidemic of that magnitude would be combatted by a strong and supportive community, replete with enthusiastic advocates, justice mechanisms, cultural and legal deterrents, and healing modalities. Is romance and recovery as difficult as it seems? A rape victim reflects on the triumphs and traumas of her dating life 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z The crack epidemic took its toll, making the desolate streets of the industrial areas more dangerous by day and night. Downtown L.A.'s hot art scene? It was just as happening in the '70s 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z In Mr. Roth’s new novel, “Nemesis,” it’s the summer when a polio epidemic sweeps through the city, spreading anxiety and suspicion. Books of The Times: When Polio Disrupted the Playground 2010-10-04T17:16:00Z It was a bitter irony, in that in “Love! Valour!” — which earned him one of his four Tony Awards — the playwright explored the devastating fallout of another epidemic, made worse by government failure. Perspective | With Terrence McNally’s death, the theater has lost a voice of consummate wit and passion 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z “I had been thinking a lot about what you hear referred to as this epidemic of anxiety or despair, and the amplification systems we have now,” she said. A Song and Dance Collaboration, Straight Outta Swamplandia 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z It's also allegedly leading to an epidemic of plagiarism. Everything you need to know about the internet 2010-06-19T23:14:00Z It’s reasonable to conclude, looking back, that many people in science and government had decent intentions and simply didn’t know what to do about AIDS, an epidemic of a new and puzzling variety. How AIDS activism changed America 2012-09-22T17:00:00Z And if we are to combat this loneliness epidemic, we need to view connection as more than some poetic expression. Let's touch: why physical connection between human beings matters 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The title of Sara May’s Leica store show, “After the Crisis,” refers to a terrifying event just a few years ago: the Ebola epidemic. Review | In the galleries: A surrealist painter inspires a photographer 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Gosh, we have so much that we couldn’t include in the documentary and there has been a lot written about “food deserts” and about income disparity and the role that plays in the obesity epidemic. Katie Couric vs. Big Food: She’s a “strong feminist,” but not an “activist” 2014-05-06T22:59:00Z There was revelatory reporting about the opioid epidemic, accounts of the sometimes perilous and pernicious effects of social media, and a wide-lens view of life in Tibet. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Here are three books that explore the opioid epidemic and how to help those afflicted by addiction. 3 Books Take a Deeper Look at the Opioid Epidemic 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z The nurse, who returned to work in Sierra Leone after recovering from the disease in the UK, will call for a global solution to the epidemic. Ebola nurse to deliver C4 message 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z “There’s an epidemic of young people with old souls according to all my 40-year-old-friends.” 5 Smart Comedy Specials From Veteran Standups 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z I kept learning that, in very different ways, we have become disconnected from things we really need, and this deep disconnection is driving this epidemic of depression and anxiety all around us. Is everything you think you know about depression wrong? 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Rooted in folklore, they were symbols of epidemics — and a plausible explanation for disease, at least for the time. Why the Vampire Myth Won’t Die 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z Part of the reason was disease; the war coincided with a raging smallpox epidemic. Rick Atkinson’s Savage American Revolution 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z In the 1970s, a spate of divorces among senators prompted talk of an “epidemic.” Everyone who’s won this seat in Congress has gotten divorced afterward 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z What’s gone through your mind as that issue has become an epidemic? Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy has no plans to slow down 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Earlier this month Sessions said the justice department was conducting 27 investigations into an “epidemic” of classified leaks, compared with “three per year” in the last three years of the Obama administration. Spielberg’s The Post tells of Pentagon Papers and time when media was trusted 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Her latest book began with the question of how to tell a story about the opioid epidemic that is ravaging Appalachia. An Appalachian Elegy, Hillbillies Not Included 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Or those looking for discourse on issues related to food, like the obesity epidemic, fracking and the food supply or the state of nutrition in schools. ABC hopes `The Chew' can win over daytime viewers 2011-08-30T18:46:04Z Curious as to what was on the menu during those pesky Bubonic Plague epidemics, I began to research medieval and Renaissance cooking. Thanksgiving, medieval style: Give thanks that “Red Deer testicles” and “living eels in roasted pig” aren’t on the menu today 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z This standup comedian, who performs as Ms. Pat, grew up in Atlanta during the crack epidemic, one of five children of an alcoholic single mother. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Patricia Williams Goes From Crime to Comedy 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Liberia has borne the brunt of the epidemic, recording 1,224 deaths as of 6 September. Ebola outbreak: US to send 3,000 troops to west Africa to fight epidemic 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z The relationship therapist Andrew G Marshall described to me "an epidemic". From teledildonics to interactive porn: the future of sex in a digital age 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Our obesity epidemic and the contribution from soda. Perspective | The case for diet soda: It gets a bad rap, but the research tells a different story 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Streep follows a Montana high school basketball team, the Arlee Warriors, as they play through a historic season while also facing a suicide epidemic on the Native American reservation that most players call home. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z She took the podium normally reserved for spokesman Josh Earnest and told reporters she hoped to bring attention to the nation's opioid epidemic. Actress Allison Janney played a White House press secretary on "The West Wing" but got to do the real thing Friday 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z In mid-1916 the city faced a polio epidemic that killed a baby every 2½ hours. The lifesaver 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Hulse advises that the force majeure clause, which essentially frees both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event takes place, be updated to include “pandemic,” “epidemic,” or “Covid-19” explicitly. If a Zoom Wedding Isn’t for You, Here’s How to Plan For Later 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z So they viewed all calamities, like earthquakes, accidents, volcanic eruptions, epidemics, and floods, as a punishment by that same being. This is your brain on religion: Uncovering the science of belief 2014-01-04T19:00:00Z As Nina Teicholz and Gary Taubes have shown, in their respective books “Big Fat Surprise” and “Why We Get Fat,” this endorsement, which was largely unsupported by data, helped fuel the obesity epidemic. Why Doctors Should Organize 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Before the epidemic, Michael and Susan endured their own signs of emotional distress. Perfect Sense: Love in the Time of Catastrophe 2012-02-01T16:45:20Z She shows up late in the blighted summer of 1876, when San Francisco is in the throes of a smallpox epidemic and an unbearable heat wave. Books of The Times: In ‘Frog Music,’ Emma Donoghue Delves Into Unsolved Crime 2014-04-07T20:53:50Z He has advised six presidents on health epidemics. Anthony Fauci: The coronavirus pandemic ‘is not, as it were, under control’ 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Olympia graduated from Boston University with a degree in physical therapy and practiced that occupation, traveling to West Virginia, Minnesota and Texas during the worst days of the midcentury polio epidemic. Olympia Dukakis, Oscar Winner for ‘Moonstruck,’ Dies at 89 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z It's a life shaped by isolation, loss and yearning for an unrecoverable past: excellent preparation for the catastrophic events that overtake the country in the wake of a "memory-destroying epidemic." Laura van den Berg's 'Find Me' captures a memorable apocalypse 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The organization was founded by University of Illinois epidemiologist Gary Slutkin, partly to explore the controversial notion that criminal violence spreads through a society in epidemic fashion, just as contagious diseases do. Pick of the week: Real-life crime drama "The Interrupters" 2011-07-29T01:01:00Z Mr. Roth said he actually made the decision to stop writing in 2010, a few months after finishing his novel “Nemesis,” about a 1944 polio epidemic in his hometown, Newark. Struggle Over, Philip Roth Reflects on Putting Down His Pen 2012-11-18T03:52:41Z Such moves are a gamble, given the uncertainty surrounding the course of the epidemic and the economic crisis. They Were Meant to Be the Season’s Big Books. Then the Virus Struck. 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z In the long run, this could fuel the obesity epidemic. Food for thought: How your mindset can make healthy food more alluring on social media 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z This is far from a clinical survey, but it does feel like our creative industries are smoothing the jagged surfaces of their lives with SSRIs in astonishing – even epidemic – numbers. Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z The route commemorates the mushers who raced against time in 1925 to save the children of Nome from a diphtheria epidemic. From watching the Iditarod to chasing the aurora borealis, Anchorage offers wintertime charm for travelers 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z After Trump was elected, Fauci wrote papers describing his work on previous epidemics. Anthony Fauci was ready for this. America was not. 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z “We are moving beyond an epidemic. I would call it a crisis,” he says. Why opioid deaths are this generation’s Aids crisis | Mary O’Hara 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z More widely, it’s seen as a key factor in the growing obesity epidemic in the U.S. and throughout the world. Do poor people eat more junk food than wealthier Americans? 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z After all, there is a loneliness epidemic and Frazzetto is on a mission to make human beings do intimacy better. Lonely? It’s time to brush up your intimacy skills 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the face of our own raging obesity epidemic, child-directed advertising of unhealthful food to children continues unabated. Motherlode Blog: Ban on Advertising to Children Linked to Lower Obesity Rates 2012-07-13T15:30:03Z On the U.S. government’s end, congressional and internal CIA investigations also failed to find evidence of connections between the agency and the crack epidemic as galling or direct as the story presented in “Snowfall.” Perspective | ‘Snowfall’ is compelling and believable — which is why it could use a disclaimer 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z An epidemic of illegal drugs is scarring America, with a twofold increase in use and fourfold increase in deaths in the last decade. Love couldn't break heroin's grip as sons became casualties of epidemic 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z "If you leave behind even one burning ember, one case undetected, it could reignite the epidemic," Thomas Frieden, director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters this week. Ebola outbreak 'moving faster than efforts to control it', says WHO chief 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Spying on a Half-Sister Right Under Her Nose The jittery opening scenes of “People Like Us” capture the high anxiety that is epidemic in the modern workplace with the clattering velocity of an action film. Movie Review: ‘People Like Us,’ With Chris Pine 2012-06-28T23:36:10Z “I don’t think it’s an epidemic of racism, I don’t think it’s ingrained in the society,” O’Reilly said on Tuesday evening. Larry Wilmore rips apart Bill O’Reilly’s race rant: Racism is not an epidemic, “it’s the common f**king cold!” 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z CW will not bring back the thriller “Containment,” about an epidemic. ‘Castle,’ ‘Nashville’ and ‘CSI’ Spinoff Are Among 12 Canceled TV Shows 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Costa, for her part, said on her social media channels that the documentary was urgent “in a time where the far right is spreading like an epidemic.” Brazil documentary gets Oscar nomination, exposes division 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Also, to remind us of how lucky we are to be living in the 21st century, the typhoid fever epidemic is addressed at the hospital. TV highlights: ‘Treehouse Masters’ builds a home for Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley Okay, I also wanted a break from this season’s epidemic of selfie sticks, apparently superglued to the hands of every other tourist in town. It’s sparkler season: Touring Italy’s Prosecco Road 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Reagan, France says, is the coldhearted president who might have “contained” the epidemic. The man behind “How to Survive a Plague” taught us how to be activists 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Garfein is a former CDC epidemic intelligence service officer who used to investigate how patients contracted Hep C. He identified systemic risk factors and advised facilities how to develop policy to prevent infection. The hospital tech who stole needles 2013-01-21T17:00:00Z "God called me to start my own nonprofit," she said in a recent interview, "so I would be better suited to help save kids from the growing epidemic of teen suicide." Wisconsin singer Franki Moscato vows to 'save kids from hurting themselves' 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z Whether it’s civil war, an Ebola epidemic , a tsunami, global financial collapse — we now get this news immediately, and it feels as if it’s happening right next door to us. Zombies, Aliens and Robots: The ‘Walking Dead’ Producer on Her Greatest Hits 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Lack of exercise is clearly involved in this obesity epidemic, as is the increased availability of cheap processed food and sugary drinks. Bad sleep makes it harder to keep your waistline down 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z But in terms of my population, there are many people who were profoundly traumatized by the epidemic. AIDS Casts a Shadow Over Gay Marriage Victory 2011-12-31T07:00:09Z When Kushner finally showed up, we spent an intense hour discussing the devastations of the epidemic, still raging though the surrounding neighbourhoods of Lower Manhattan. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z These picks cover the devastation of tsunamis, earthquakes and wildfires; the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918; mass extinctions; the potential for nuclear annihilation. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z If you are interested in learning the latest on fighting what’s called the obesity epidemic, you may want to avoid the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website. Movie Review: ‘Fed Up’ Descends on Villains in the Battle of the Bulge 2014-05-08T20:55:02Z Each profile will also feature gadget-friendly icons representing such concerns as crime, health epidemics, natural disasters, terrorism, civil unrest and time-sensitive events such as elections. State Department gives its travel advisory system a makeover 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Sutures inside of your eyelids, for example From all of these stories, I know there's an epidemic going on. Don’t Call Her a Victim: After Surviving Opioids, Nan Goldin Goes After the Makers 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z It was important to me, personally, that it be taken seriously as the epidemic that it is. Edie Falco: 'I've never loved the work more, but I'm not cut out for the business' 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z But that troubling trend wasn’t on the minds of journalists at the Charleston Gazette-Mail last year as they dug deep into the prescription-drug epidemic that was inflicting mortal wounds on their community. Perspective | Great local reporting stands between you and wrongdoing. And it needs saving. 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z “I think it’s relevant, it’s very timely, it’s an epidemic ... I hope that people realize ... addiction ... has all sorts of stigmas applied to it which it shouldn’t have.” 'Beautiful Boy' tackles family's battle with drug addiction 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z I could successfully argue that the “Really?” epidemic on scripted shows is lazy writing; why do the hard work of spinning meaningful dialogue when you can grab a cheap laugh with a single word? Critic’s Notebook: ‘Really?’ Pops Up Everywhere on Television 2012-10-01T22:17:08Z McVeigh says she was inspired by reading a canvas-bound diary written by a doctor who witnessed the two-year epidemic that killed thousands of Africans. Review: `Fever Tree' is sweet, simple story 2013-04-10T12:52:09Z The Cannes Film Festival, the world’s largest, was forced to postpone its latest edition in May due to the virus epidemic. Venice Film Festival will go ahead in September - Veneto governor 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z Slovenia’s tourism and restaurants were badly hit by the coronavirus epidemic as the country went into lockdown in mid-March and started to gradually lift it over a month later. Slovenia wins its first Michelin stars 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z But shocking as this is, such studies overlook the loneliness epidemic among younger adults. Loneliness: a silent plague that is hurting young people most 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Before becoming a full-time anchor in 2001, Rieger spent years as a street reporter, covering crime, car wrecks, murders, the bread and butter of local newscasts, including the carnage of D.C.’s early-1990s crack epidemic. What Wendy Rieger learned from Washington 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Yet police violence against pregnant women extends beyond the use of Tasers — and has been characterized as an “epidemic.” The violent policing of Black motherhood: How and why cops target mothers of color 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Few breaks, little overtime pay, no medical attention for work injuries, an epidemic of suicides — conditions unthinkable to most American workers. Review: One-man show describes falling in and out of love with Steve Jobs' Apple gadgetry 2011-04-28T00:40:34Z “There’s an awful heroin epidemic sweeping across our country,” a small white woman wearing big frames said, bursting into tears, “Our kids are quickly becoming addicted and dying!” The War on Drugs is rigged: Now that the face of addiction is white, will anything change? 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z The most timely of Maxwell’s books at the moment is surely “They Came Like Swallows,” one of a handful of enduring literary works about the influenza epidemic of 1918-20. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z A distinctive American flavor was added with “Everyone Dance,” a 1982 work by Calvin Hampton, the New York organist who was an early casualty of that other epidemic, AIDS. Organist Jeremy Filsell’s clever profile of 20th-century pieces at the Kennedy Center Exercise is a good thing, and eating too much fat is certainly a bad thing, but there’s a pretty clear consensus that neither of those holds the key to the obesity epidemic. Katie Couric vs. Big Food: She’s a “strong feminist,” but not an “activist” 2014-05-06T22:59:00Z Though it may not mirror that standard narrative of our national opioid epidemic, Khar’s story nonetheless illustrates many essential facets of addiction. She Took Her First Pill at 8. By 13, She Was an Addict. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The current opioid addiction epidemic is the worst drug crisis in American history. ‘Harris Wittels was the funniest person I ever met’ – Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman and Aziz Ansari on a lost comic genius 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z His recent book, “Minimize Injury, Maximize Performance,” is designed to teach parents how to protect their children from what he describes as an injury epidemic. Tommy John’s son wants to help kids avoid sports surgeries like the one named for his dad 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Watch your back, R. Kelly, because Spaceman's "Love Storm" CD is about to set off an epidemic of freak getting-on. "30 Rock's" ambitious, uneven live episode 2010-10-15T13:16:00Z Last week the public received reason to worry that a new epidemic is upon us. The zombie apocalypse has arrived, and it’s in Iowa with Rick Perry 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z His new two-part HBO series on how Big Pharma greed begat the casualties of the opioid epidemic, "The Crime of the Century," is no exception. "They knew better": Alex Gibney on Big Pharma & the opioid epidemic in "The Crime of the Century" 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z “The typhus epidemic itself is the subject of jokes. It is laughter through tears, but it is laughter. This is our only weapon in the ghetto.” It’s OK to Find Humor in Some of This 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z “Until we decrease calorie intake on a population level, we are unlikely to see much reversal in the obesity epidemic,” she said. Could low-fat be worse for you than whole milk? 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z There was still smog until the Clean Air Act was passed and though there was a mass vaccination scheme, a polio epidemic broke out not far from where we lived. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z All of our world cruises have deviated from published routes thanks to weather, political unrest and epidemics such as Ebola. Cruising around the world in 115 days 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z "I don't know ... But I think this Ebola epidemic is a form of population control. ... getting crazy bruh," the singer said in a tweet just after Sunday turned to Monday. Chris Brown, Ebola truther? The singer has a theory about the disease 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z That year was a particularly good one for sales following a world war and a flu epidemic. The Ouija board's mysterious origins: war, spirits, and a strange death 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Rosalia’s relics are paraded through the city as the epidemic abates, and the grateful citizens worship her as the santuzza, the “little saint,” who saved the city. The Saint Who Stopped an Epidemic Is on Lockdown at the Met 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement In the story “Keep,” victims of a deadly epidemic become ringed by trenches — depressions suddenly erupting in the earth — if they remain still for too long. Review: China Miéville’s ‘Three Moments of an Explosion’ 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Grande adds that she is an advocate for healthy eating and that the obesity epidemic in the United States bothers her. Ariana Grande Loves America, Hates Obesity, Silent on Donut-Licking 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Much of the political dimension has gone, and what remains is a hallucinogenic evocation of the impact of the epidemic. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z Piveta’s release from hospital was a bright moment in an otherwise darkening scenario as the epidemic hit Brazil with force this week. 'Bigger than winning the war': WWII vet, aged 99, survives coronavirus in Brazil 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z These are the words President Trump used to describe the opioid epidemic ravaging the country during a White House listening session in March. How Big Pharma is hindering treatment of the opioid addiction epidemic 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z After “trust” came “apocalypse,” then “epidemic,” then “asymptomatic” and then “esprit de corps,” which President Trump used during a press briefing. For many people, the search for meaning in the coronavirus pandemic starts with the dictionary 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z “Cherry” is a singular portrait of the opioid epidemic and the United States’ failure to provide adequate support to veterans. He Wrote a Novel From Jail. She Wrote One About a Different Kind of Imprisonment. 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Even before the pandemic, cultural organizations were dealing with challenges that threatened to discourage patrons, including a stressed public transportation system, traffic, parking constraints and the highly visible epidemic of homelessness. If Remote Work Empties Downtowns, Can Theaters Fill Their Seats? 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Public health authorities were under pressure to deal with an epidemic of cardiovascular disease. Pass the salt: The myth of the low-salt diet 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Yet, for all the bright colors and safe cul-de-sacs filled with unsupervised kids, the 1980s saw Reagan cut funding for mental healthcare, creating an ongoing epidemic of homelessness. "Stranger Things" and the frustrations of nostalgia 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The vampirelike Gavo appears to be the nephew of Death or the Devil, and he travels in the company of war and epidemics. Books of The Times: Family Fables Mix With a Riven Land?s Loss 2011-03-10T13:26:53Z Most institutions are familiar with what happens if a storm or strike interrupts their operations, but a viral epidemic is new territory. From Coughing Fits to Closings, Cultural World Girds for Coronavirus 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z The bill was introduced in response to the growing obesity epidemic in the areas. Mexican states of Oaxaca and Tabasco to ban sale of junk food to minors 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Tanner said ALEC, which brings lawmakers and corporate interests together to hammer out legislative recommendations, came to address the HIV epidemic because of pressure from “private interests.” When being HIV-positive was a crime 2013-04-02T15:15:00Z During the late 1840s, a cholera epidemic struck the Lower Mississippi Valley, killing thousands of blacks and whites. How did hot sauce get in so many African Americans’ bags, anyway? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The pair left Incline with a sense that the epidemic was exaggerated. A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z The agency said there was a desperate shortage of health workers and supplies in an epidemic likely to last many more months. Ebola health workers missing in Guinea 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z As “the epidemic” begins, “bands were being shot in the middle of their performances all across the country.” Review | Murder and music coincide in ‘Destroy All Monsters’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Then he factored in current events that coincided, like the opioid epidemic and the coronavirus lockdown. Filming Eugene O’Neill When the Elements (and Investors) Don’t Cooperate 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z When did you notice changes in your community from the opioid epidemic? A Director Looks for Beauty in Her Home’s Opioid Struggle 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Although millions of people are now stable and healthy on antiretroviral drugs, he said, that was not the long-term solution to the Aids epidemic. Hopes rise for Aids cure after bone-marrow transplant rids man of HIV 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z One of the most brilliant things I think you guys did for just society in general is the parallel between the crack epidemic and what's happening with the opioid crisis. Netflix's "Painkiller" puts a face on the "greedy evil" at the root of America's opioid crisis 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z Wading into a mysterious viral epidemic, Mrs. Peabody — figuratively, at least — rolled up her sleeves. The Gimlet Eye: A Socialite Who Helped AIDS Patients 2010-08-04T21:17:00Z Queen of the Night is the latest entry in what is fast becoming an epidemic of “immersive” theater in New York and around the country. Has Theater Lost Its Mind? Queen of the Night and Other Immersions 2014-02-13T18:55:19Z But, while there’s nothing wrong with promoting a method for dealing with anxiety, I hope these attempts don’t overshadow the more pressing issue, which is, why is there such an epidemic in the first place? Are cleaning gurus sweeping an epidemic under the carpet? 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Obama has wanted the Center for Disease Control to study this gun-violence problem as an epidemic but Congress has blocked it. Michael Moore: ‘Trump inspires his side. It’s like Munich in 1932’ 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z The cause is an epidemic called Shen Fever, which renders its victims thoughtless husks, repeating the same tasks ad infinitum. More Books We Loved in 2018 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Finally, his death at a time when his body was found to have 14 different prescription medicines in the system foreshadowed today’s opioid epidemic. Shake, rattle and Rolls: across America in the shadow of Elvis 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z In her reporting, Ms. Cameron observed an epidemic of green nail polish and other “Cabaret”-inspired behaviors in Beltway bars, and slyly reviewed a new party drug, methaqualone. The Queen of Change 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z The film ends with a message of hope for an H.I.V.-free generation, capturing the enormity of the epidemic by focusing on the people who are affected by it. | Putting a Human Face on the African AIDS Epidemic 2013-12-12T23:28:02Z Filming on “Mission: Impossible 7” was put on hold in February as the coronavirus epidemic took off in Italy. Tom Cruise aims higher with movie shot on space station 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The tale of her battle with addiction reverberates as America grapples with an opioid epidemic. Review | A new biography dishes about Carrie Fisher’s tumultuous, bittersweet life 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Diagnoses of type 2 diabetes are soaring worldwide, linked to the obesity epidemic. Insulin shortage could affect 40 million people with type 2 diabetes 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Today, we are on the verge of another epidemic; not a disease that attacks our immune systems, but our brain, our memory, our personality, ourselves. Dementia poses threat to health similar to HIV and Aids, summit told 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The national focus on diet, diet foods and exercise is not abating the obesity epidemic and actually making it worse, charges the film. One chilling reason Americans are increasingly overweight 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z It later confirmed two Ebola cases but said they were unrelated to the west African epidemic. Ebola epidemic will get worse before it gets better, top US health body warns 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Aug. 15: Trump alleges that the influx of Cuban baseball players has led to “an epidemic of stolen bases.” Style Invitational Week 1315: Clue Us In — our backward crossword 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Many U.S. health-care providers see acupuncture as a possible tool to battle the country’s opioid epidemic, which was partly brought about by increased but legal prescriptions of painkillers. So you want to give acupuncture a try. How do you pick a provider? 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z “The simple answer is ‘yes’,” says Dr Guy Meadows, the co-founder and clinical director of the Sleep School, which runs insomnia clinics in central London, “we are in a sleeplessness epidemic.” Dream ticket: how sleep became a billion-dollar business 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z This was the fifth allegation that he had touched a student — a violation of a rule the school was strictly enforcing amid an epidemic of allegations against teachers. Would you befriend the person who got you fired? 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Quarantine infrastructures tend to be tailored to the previous epidemic, instead of anticipating whatever is to come. The Extraordinary History (and Likely Busy Future) of Quarantine 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z “Had they died in the influenza epidemic? Been killed in the early Zeppelin raids?” Murders Most Foul 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z The coronavirus epidemic is bringing fans up close and personal with celebrities in an unprecedented way, but not everyone is liking what they see. Tone-deaf or tuned-in? Coronavirus epidemic proves a minefield for celebs 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z But the epidemic continues to grow, aided by a legal system that criminalizes victims and a health care framework that treats patients as consumers. The Worst Drug Crisis in American History 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z KENT, Ohio — An epidemic that fills coffin after coffin with people in their 20s. On the Front Lines of Ohio’s Heroin Crisis: Playwrights 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z In the movie, Mudd is sent to the notorious and remote Shark Island prison, where he eventually cures a Yellow Fever epidemic among the other inmates. Liked 'The Conspirator'? More period courtroom drama from Scarecrow 2011-04-14T22:03:23Z “I don’t think it merits discussion of an ‘epidemic’. The great vape debate: are e-cigarettes saving smokers or creating new addicts? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z The crash triggered a national outpouring of grief rivaled only by 9/11 and an epidemic of finger-pointing. Review | ‘The Burning Blue’ is a compact, suspenseful chronicle of the Challenger disaster 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Did you know there was an epidemic of men spanking women in movies in the decade after 1938? Shakespeare Conquers America! Starring Ulysses S. Grant as Desdemona 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Wojnarowicz did not see the epidemic as a tragic accident of biology but as an act of willful, mendacious neglect by the American government. David Wojnarowicz’s Still-Burning Rage 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Alcoholism is a major epidemic in Native communities, as more than one in 10 of deaths are related to alcohol abuse. “Sausage Party”’s race problem: This “equal opportunity offender” is just plain offensive 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Famines, wars, epidemics and a wretched postcolonial poverty drove them through the ports by the millions. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z When a yellow fever epidemic shot through New York, Brown’s audience dissipated; in October 1822 the National Advocate, a newspaper, announced that the theater was closing because of the fever. A Black Theater Flourished in New York. 200 Years Ago. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z If those people who argue that sugar and refined grains are at the heart of America’s diabetes and obesity epidemic are right, it throws a different light on the cereal aisle. Breakfast was the most important meal of the day — until America ruined it 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z In the early 1900s, our nation suffered a flu epidemic and tragically, the Tūhoe tribe didn't have confidence in the policies of government at the time and decided to self-isolate. Cliff Curtis on his "slow burn" Maori cop thriller "Muru" and how it's like "Avatar" 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z For three decades, we've been told that there is an epidemic of violence in urban black America — "plague" is Leovy's preferred term. 'Ghettoside' focuses on one L.A. murder to make case for more policing 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z “If bad behavior is contagious — as many studies have shown it is — we’re in an epidemic.” We live in uncivil times. Two former White House social secretaries offer a cure. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Related: Only fundamental social change can defeat the anxiety epidemic Rationally, I know what is going on. 'Sick and asphyxiating' – why we live in an age of anxiety 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z This has been a particularly juicy year for in-flight drama: From the ongoing debate over passengers’ right-to-recline to the epidemic of passenger shaming, let us reflect on the year in terrible mile high etiquette. From the “knee defender” to the pig on the plane: The year in crazy in-flight drama 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z A blood supply tainted with HIV killed thousands of people with hemophilia in the early years of the epidemic, before tests were in place to screen for it. Review | A doctor, a parent, a dying child. A play about what medicine can and cannot do. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z For Liz Moore, author of the extraordinary new crime novel, “Long Bright River,” it’s the opioid epidemic that ravages the once cohesive world of Kensington, a historically working-class neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia. Review | ‘Long Bright River’ is that wonderful thriller that subverts your expectations till the very last page 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z If, that is, politically motivated shootings and bombings in big cities were fantastical tropes or metaphorical conceits, like zombie epidemics or extraterrestrial invasions. Review: Bored, Beautiful Terrorists With a Taste for Luxury Brands 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Yet the economical form of "Nemesis," about a young playground director's internal struggle as his community is besieged by a polio epidemic, took root some eight years ago. Philip Roth reflects on novel's decline and 'Nemesis' 2010-10-05T16:26:00Z What music could possibly capture the shock, fear and loss of this mysterious new epidemic? Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z “Aids took everything from me and made me an orphan. I will never downplay this horrible epidemic.” Instagram's Aids memorial: ‘History does not record itself’ 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Laura Jacobs praises Grace Kelly as an icon of “quiet good taste,” which is ultimately an epidemic in this collection. Hear Them Roar 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Across the Congolese border in Goma, a cholera epidemic swept through the city. An Artist’s New Migration Song 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z In the early 90s we were dealing with crack, the Aids epidemic, racism and all kinds of social injustices. Kids from Larry Clark's Kids: 'We were like the United Nations of skateboarding' 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z In a behind-the-scenes commentary Alton Walpole, the supervising producer, talks about a fly “epidemic” the crew encountered in Australia. The Week Ahead: July 29 — Aug. 4 2012-07-30T13:57:52Z But those goals fail to illustrate the different ways ways individual communities experience the epidemic. 'Invisible epidemic': progress against HIV leaves young Latino men behind 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Although the larger region has been beset by the opioid epidemic in recent years, she has not seen evidence of that in Chester. A Little Theatre That Might 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z His first wife died during the influenza epidemic after World War I, leaving him with three daughters and a son. Joan Sutherland, Opera Soprano, Dies 2010-10-11T16:29:00Z She is part of a large band of parents bereaved by the opioid epidemic, which now claims close to 60,000 American lives a year. These mothers saw the opioid epidemic before anyone else. No one listened 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings made process conspicuous and within a decade his influence was epidemic, especially in three dimensions. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z America’s epidemic of teen moms mired in poverty is no accident. “11-year-olds shouldn’t get IUDs!”: Fox News creates mythical preteen IUD seeker, ignoring the success of school-based reproductive healthcare clinics 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Written when the American government was conducting its own witch hunt for Communists in the early 1950s, Miller’s plot pits a few righteous souls against an epidemic of fear. ‘The Crucible,’ by Arthur Miller, Plays at the Old Vic 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z "Obesity is an epidemic and these shows are trivializing it," he says, noting that the diet and exercise plans are often extreme and unsustainable. Who benefits most from weight-loss TV shows? 2011-05-29T18:01:05Z In the AFP interview, Bill Gates also stressed that the diminishing threat of the Ebola epidemic is no reason to relax. Bill Gates condemns anti-vaxx trend: “It’s unfortunate” 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z At the height of the HIV epidemic in the UK, the Thatcher government opened up needle exchanges for intravenous drug users. Why opioid deaths are this generation’s Aids crisis | Mary O’Hara 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z The women are, at first, strangers, having come to the same beach seeking the sand and fresh air they have heard might “slow the process” of their apparently epidemic condition. Review: In ‘sandblasted,’ Seizing the Day. Also the Nose. 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z “What I sought to interrogate and critique was the modern-day epidemic of human trafficking and endured labor,” Zhao said. She Pulled Her Debut Book When Critics Found It Racist. Now She Plans to Publish. 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The children who become casualties of the gun epidemic know that they are conscripts in a senseless infantry. School Shootings and the Heroes Who Shouldn’t Be 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z "It could be that the depression epidemic is not so much the discovery of a long-unrecognised disease," he writes, "but a reconstitution of a broad swathe of human experience as illness." Manufacturing Depression by Gary Greenberg | Book review 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z “If the HBO network can run a website called The Weight of the Nation entirely devoted to showing films ‘confronting America’s obesity epidemic,’ then perhaps the idea is not so far-fetched.” Mockfest, Food Film Fest and Other Niche Programs 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z He dismissed the industry’s attempts to shift responsibility for the epidemic. 'They're drug dealers in Armani suits': executives draw focus amid US epidemic 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z With reports of adolescent stress reaching epidemic proportions, concerned parents are left searching for ways to prevent or minimize pressure. Don’t worry about your child’s everyday stress. It may be helping. 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says we are in the midst of the “worst drug overdose epidemic in history,” and it’s hard to argue with that. Here are 26 concrete policy steps to reduce opioid addiction and overdoses 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Travelers are poised to stop the tipping epidemic. Perspective | Are consumers tired of gratuitous gratuities? 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Problem: South Africa is at the centre of an epidemic of TB/HIV co-infections. Africa innovations: 15 ideas helping to transform a continent 2012-08-25T23:05:54Z But what folks don’t realize is that along with childhood obesity, childhood constipation is epidemic. Motherlode Blog: When Bedwetting Isn't an 'Accident' 2012-06-01T17:55:32Z Just as Darwinian rules of survival held sway on the streets during the crack epidemic, so “the law of the jungle” prevailed in prison. Review: Memoirs From Two Eras Testify to Prison’s Corrosive Effect 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Today those albums stand with the work of Public Enemy and Ice Cube as defining musical documents of the Reagan-Bush-era black consciousness, with songs that howl out at racism and the crack epidemic. ?Everyday Sunshine? Celebrates Ska-Punk Rockers Fishbone 2011-10-02T02:45:06Z “I think this whole epidemic taught us to be more prepared for things, because we weren’t prepared for this,” Ms. Lane said. Putting Pencil to Paper, in Galleries and in the Voting Booth 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Many of the cases share similar language, targeting Juul for its allegedly deceptive advertising and targeting of youth while profiting from the addiction epidemic. More than a dozen US school districts sue Juul and other vape companies 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Providing the incubator for an epidemic of witches was probably not among them. Stacy Schiff's history of Salem trials and Alex Mar's book on modern pagans offer bewitching reading 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z He really felt like there was a huge drug epidemic that needed to be dealt with. Where's Daniel Yuen? "The Lost Kids" podcast probes ties between "troubled teen" camp and '60s cult 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z The nationwide drug and crime epidemics of the eighties devastated large segments of the community, affecting the area’s youth in particular. A Photographer Chronicles Upheaval in His Suburban Home Town 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Q: There is such a different kind of drug epidemic now. Chrissie Hynde, holding out for the independents 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Forster's film finds Pitt pitted against insect-like hordes of the sprinting dead, as his UN agent trots round the globe trying to trace the source of the epidemic, save his family and avoid getting chomped. World War Z, Before Midnight, Spike Island: this week's new films 2013-06-22T05:00:13Z Counterfeit medications and candies disguised as something other than fentanyl are raising new concerns and confusion in the opioid epidemic sweeping across America. 'Death pill': fentanyl disguised as other drugs linked to spike in US overdoses 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z What a Roanoke-based reporter learned as she chronicled the pain pill epidemic’s march through western Virginia. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z But more recent movies and shows also seem to be working on Covid-era fears of epidemics. Why the Vampire Myth Won’t Die 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z Victims of a Lassa fever epidemic are being burned in piles, winter is a distant memory, and elective euthanasia is available at doctors’ offices. Review: ‘Brockmire’ Is the Dystopian Baseball Comedy We Need 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z We are in the middle of an epidemic of preciousness, and there are no signs that it is abating. Perspective | His grandson’s name was at stake. Would the Nats throw Gene Weingarten a curve? 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Seems like a slam-dunk case for an epidemic at that time, right? ArtsBeat: Finding Needles in Google's 500 Billion-Word Haystack 2010-12-17T19:30:05Z And Sam’s panicked stasis, both social and professional, corresponds to a recognizable epidemic of the howling fantods in our nation’s graduate schools. Movie Review: ?Losing Control,? a Comedy by Valerie Weiss 2012-03-23T04:11:55Z This is a book about the past, written in the fury of the present — in the midst of another epidemic — but its gaze is fixed on the future. A New Testament to the Fury and Beauty of Activism During the AIDS Crisis 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Nearly all previous epidemics had been linked to the bushmeat trade, with hunters picking up dead infected animals in the forestand selling them on. Ebola: research team says migrating fruit bats responsible for outbreak 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z The New York Times staff was recognized in the international category for its Ebola stories and for the feature photography of a freelancer, Daniel Berehulak, who documented the epidemic in West Africa. Washington Post’s Carol Leonnig wins Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Secret Service lapses 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z It’s not actually an inexplicable coincidence that the introduction of reduced-fat processed foods around the end of the 1970s corresponds closely with the beginnings of the obesity epidemic. Katie Couric vs. Big Food: She’s a “strong feminist,” but not an “activist” 2014-05-06T22:59:00Z It also calls out the entertainment industry for its past and present encouragement of “the epidemic of police violence and culture of anti-blackness”, through numerous movies and shows focusing on the perspective of police. Idris Elba, Viola Davis and over 300 stars call on Hollywood to divest from police 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Outrage is easy to channel, hard to bottle up and at epidemic levels in so many areas of society that it’s difficult to take a step in today’s world without causing controversy. I live as a feminist, but I’m tired of being so furious all the time | Dear Mariella 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z The show’s geopolitical analysis posits Western Islamophobia as one instigator of Middle Eastern Islamofascism; diagnosing a global epidemic of post-traumatic stress disorder, it forbids jingoism. Review: John Krasinski Brings His Man-Boyish Charm to “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z With its dramatic design, the Mio is a welcome departure from Buenos Aires’s epidemic of bland boutique hotels. | Check In, Check Out : Hotel Review: Hotel Mio in Buenos Aires 2011-09-16T18:55:00Z Levy said polls show that many people believe that there will be some catastrophic event like an earthquake or epidemic that threatens civilization, and these are the people who will participate in the show. New TV series awards bunker to winning survivalist 2012-06-05T18:40:10Z Eyre won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 2017, for a revelatory series of articles on West Virginia’s opioid epidemic. How Painkiller Pushers Took Over Coal Country 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z I mean there are just so many places in this story where the epidemic could have been slowed or perhaps even stopped. The reality of life in a "Dopesick" country: "It is just a state of misery" 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z If cancellations have become epidemic lately at the , audience members should summon patience and assure themselves that the recent rash of podium no-shows was just a fluke. CSO goes to the mat for sub conductor 2011-01-21T17:34:13Z Or at least a “what to” – what to expect when you’re expecting an epidemic. What can we learn about coronavirus from watching Contagion? 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z With most epidemics, he points out, it's a change in behaviour that stops the spread of the disease. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z They said there is an epidemic of emails going back and forth between secretaries, using your name – "the Hoff" – in different situations. David Hasselhoff: 'If we have to go with the Hoff to pay the rent, let's go with the Hoff' 2012-08-05T19:00:01Z “There’s an epidemic of violence against trans women. Every time I walk out the house I put myself in danger.” For trans people, birth certificate battle is a fight against discrimination 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z He's this colorful guy who was ahead of the opioid epidemic. In solving his own son's murder, "The Pharmacist" also took on the opioid epidemic 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z The crack epidemic and the War on Drugs demanded mass incarceration of black and brown bodies: the filmic imagination of 1980s action movies provided the justification for such an agenda. Donald Trump’s “Death Wish” fantasies: Guns, white vigilantism, and the right’s toxic masculinity 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Consuming for consumption’s sake is an epidemic – especially when it comes to kids. Why depriving your kids of toys is a great idea 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Reddit is a modern-day canary in the coal mine for the people of Appalachia – a region of the United States being disproportionately affected by the opioid epidemic. How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addicts in the US 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z The incarcerated novelist’s debut is a singular portrait of the opioid epidemic and the United States’ failure to provide adequate support to veterans. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Madonna wrote, produced and narrated 2008 documentary I Am Because We Are, about children in Malawi orphaned by the Aids epidemic. Madonna to direct movie based on life of ballerina Michaela DePrince 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z If violence against women is a global epidemic, too often it’s a silent one. Photoshopping bruises onto Kim Kardashian’s face isn’t going to stop domestic violence 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Cultural issues, discrimination, parental pressure and competition for highly paid jobs are combining to create a suicide epidemic among young Indians. In modernizing India, suicide is on the rise among young 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The crack epidemic was long under way and also a long way from ending. Team older feminist: am I allowed nuanced feelings about #MeToo? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z It even saw a brief revival when World War I and the flu epidemic of 1918 prompted grieving family members to again turn to mediums to receive comfort and closure. In the heart of D.C.’s tony Georgetown, a church that communes with the dead 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Here is a clip of one of the realist takes on the heroin epidemic. Anthony Bourdain's greatest TV moments 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The sad events that followed — a polio epidemic and war among the chimps, Flint’s failure to develop a sense of independence from his mother — are depicted, too. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Lindsay calls ghosting an “epidemic” and sees her show as an attempt to reveal that it’s not okay. Perspective | Ghosting is normal now. That’s completely bonkers. 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z As in "Children of Men," where the world is gripped by an epidemic of infertility, the ailment here is also metaphorical. 'Perfect Sense': Whiffs of love amid sensory-loss epidemic 2012-02-16T21:36:10Z Unhealthy diets are the main cause of Australia's obesity epidemic and restricting advertising for unhealthy foods could help improve what we eat. Is it finally time to ban junk food advertising? A new bill could improve kids’ health 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z As far as epidemics go, I’m not sure women drinking heavily is one of them. Drinking and sexual assault: America’s booze culture is sexist 2013-09-16T15:07:00Z Superior medicines and public sanitation, along with state vaccination programmes, cut the impact of epidemics like smallpox and typhus. The best of times 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The Cinnabon portraits — whose icing patterns riff on the Conceptual patterns of Sol LeWitt — look as if they could increase the nation’s obesity epidemic all by themselves. A Penitent Reflects on the Wilderness 2010-09-16T04:00:00Z Despite its messiness, the city remains a laboratory for improving the quality of life: Squalor and overpopulation may trigger things like epidemics, but such public health problems also demand action. An archaeologist looks at our lives in cities, over millenniums 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z "This decline in concern could be attributed to younger generations growing up in the period after fears of an HIV epidemic abated," the survey notes. Sex Uncovered: austerity-hit Britons have sex less than once a week, poll finds 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Even so, from its earliest days as a European foothold on the new continent, and on through hurricanes, wars, epidemics and social and economic upheavals, the region hung on. At the Mouth of the Mississippi, a Weird and Fragile Beauty 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Darkness suffuses “How to Be Safe,” Tom McAllister’s heady and unsettling exploration of America’s gun violence epidemic. When the Aftermath of a Shooting Is as Devastating as the Crime 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Ten years ago, that epidemic swept across the world, killing 775 people. Coronavirus: how the lessons of Sars could save us today 2013-03-24T00:05:35Z This is an epidemic we have on our hands: The culture we presently live in where “your illness is not my problem.” Illness is big business 2013-02-20T20:29:00Z He scours the papers for news of fire, famine or epidemic — anything that might yield a bumper crop of souls in legal limbo. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Is, or was there, an “epidemic of autism” in Silicon Valley? The man who wants us to embrace autism 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z The "Interstellar" actor then described gun violence as "an epidemic we can control" but refrained from explicitly using the term "guns" or mentioning the need for gun control reforms within his message. Matthew McConaughey calls gun violence "an epidemic" following school shooting in hometown of Uvalde 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z And two of the three legal experts to testify to commissioners said a criminal law would have little impact on the HIV epidemic. When being HIV-positive was a crime 2013-04-02T15:15:00Z That’s what scholars initially thought, suspecting a one-time epidemic, but further research suggested that the answer to the riddle was not so simple. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Roman Catacomb Mystery’ and ‘Super Skyscrapers’ on PBS 2014-02-04T22:33:09Z For New Yorkers barracked in our houses and apartments, or doctors and nurses scrambling for face masks, beseeching a saint to end an epidemic may not sound sufficient. The Saint Who Stopped an Epidemic Is on Lockdown at the Met 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Most people, most of the time, don’t think of the obesity epidemic as a political issue, the way that economic inequality, climate change and health care clearly are. Katie Couric vs. Big Food: She’s a “strong feminist,” but not an “activist” 2014-05-06T22:59:00Z “The name of this latest epidemic of the dancing sickness is disco.” Over (Organic) Dinner, These Fitness Studio Competitors Work It Out 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z But the whitewashing of Other narratives is an epidemic in Hollywood today. How to fix Hollywood's race problem 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z A pandemic is defined by Dictionary.com as a disease “prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area.” Dictionary.com picks ‘pandemic’ as its 2020 word of the year 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Split into three separate strands, the story follows a cast of characters — including an undercover D.E.A. agent, a professor and an addict in recovery — whose lives are tied to the opioid epidemic. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The People vs. Agent Orange’ and Macy’s Fireworks 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z The Forty Hour Club production, which just opened at La MaMa, borrows elements from “Moby-Dick” to depict the ravages brought on by the opioid epidemic, particularly on the New England working class. Review: Exploring Addiction in ‘Chasing the New White Whale’ 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Although we have slowly come to recognize the opioid epidemic as the Western world’s most perilous health crisis, we have yet to turn the corner in terms of stemming its tide. In 1969 the fifth Beatle was heroin: John Lennon's addiction took its toll on the band 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Over the last five years, she has overseen an activist group called Prescription Addiction Intervention Now, or PAIN, which draws attention to the pharmaceutical companies that have profited from the opioid epidemic. Nan Goldin is Second Major Artist to Exit Marian Goodman Gallery 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Polio existed in isolated outbreaks around the world for millennia, but it didn’t become epidemic until the 20th century – helped, ironically, by improvements in sanitation. The man in the iron lung 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Dowsett Johnston uses her own dawning realization that she has an alcohol problem to look at female alcoholics, and what she believes to be an under-recognized epidemic of women drinking to excess. Drinking and sexual assault: America’s booze culture is sexist 2013-09-16T15:07:00Z Her death, at age 30, was another grim emblem of a national crisis: the epidemic of Black maternal mortality. ‘History Is Everything’: Making a Film About Black Maternal Mortality 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z As the flu epidemic takes down civilization, fantastical creatures begin to appear. The apocalypse, as imagined by Nora Roberts 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z The butt dial doesn’t discriminate—it is a hazard that everyone faces, a veritable epidemic. Rudy Giuliani and the Butt-Dialler Within All of Us 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Watts points to leaf rust as an unprecedented epidemic for the region; the farmers he works with in Central America have been hard hit and are scared. Colombian coffee at the crossroads 2013-05-13T19:48:00Z Given that this is the case, the current epidemic of disconnection makes it clear that our current child-rearing methods do not equip us with the capacity to sustain intimacy. Should women really be rushing back to work after giving birth? 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z The smell, the stench is in the hallway – that's one of the things about the crack epidemic, people had lost their sense of pride... Jay-Z: good from the hood 2010-11-20T00:03:00Z Conservationists say a thriving ivory market in Asia is helping fuel the worst poaching epidemic of African elephants in decades. Elephants are under attack in African national park It was set in Boston against a backdrop of the 1918-19 influenza epidemic and a devastating police strike. Dennis Lehane’s ‘World Gone By’: The past is close behind 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z These proto-sexts are part of a small epidemic of infidelity among the Jacobses. Review: In ‘Landline,’ the Family That Strays Together 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Under the Gun America’s gun violence epidemic is put under the microscope by Stephanie Soechtig, who tries to unpack the partisan, highly charged rhetoric and argument on both sides of the debate. Sundance 2016: which films are set to reverse festival's box office flameout? 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z It is a silent epidemic – Olivardia estimates as many as 10% of men working out in gyms may be suffering, but never seek help. Gym, eat, repeat: the shocking rise of muscle dysmorphia 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z What follows is an epidemic of increasingly brutal attacks against art until, at last, Alice is caught up in this frenzy herself. Bring Your Flamethrower. In This Novel, Art Feels the Burn. 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z The year was 1967 and America was in a panic over the emerging cardiovascular heart disease epidemic. Put down the donut: When Americans became hooked on sugar instead of natural fat, obesity ballooned 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Evidence of the 1918 flu epidemic, she explained, is recorded in graveyards and headstones. Hurry to see a cemetery while you still can appreciate it, says author Loren Rhodes 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z In 1819, when they were just 8 years old, a cholera epidemic swept through Siam, killing one-fifth of the country’s population and more than half of the twins’ family, including their father. Who Were the Original Siamese Twins? 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Cartozo hit on the idea for the quiz after Paris residents started emerging on to their balconies at 8 p.m. each night to applaud healthcare workers dealing with the epidemic. Paris neighbours ease lockdown blues with quiz from balconies 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z And their films exploded stereotypes and explored vexing topics such as black-on-black violence, economic exploitation and the crack epidemic. ‘Boyz n the Hood’ at 25: A look back at 1991’s black film renaissance 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z My first impression: This is either a joke or a one-plate explanation of America’s obesity epidemic. A $100 Weekend in Chicago 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Jan Newcomb, the executive director of the National Coalition for Arts’ Preparedness and Emergency Response, has advised organizations on how to survive hurricanes, tornadoes and fires, but never an epidemic. From Coughing Fits to Closings, Cultural World Girds for Coronavirus 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Both saw their mothers become H.I.V. positive after falling victim to the crack epidemic that overtook their community. From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z In the wake of the flu epidemic, two tribes of foragers now occupy the Bay Area. REVIEW: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Who Needs Humans? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z He only got that fictitious title — and his own shrine, built in 859-877 — to appease him after a smallpox epidemic was attributed to his angry spirit. To truly see Kyoto, walk, bike or take a train through the historic Japanese city 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z I do catch a couple of intriguing bits: One, opioid use is not an epidemic. Net neutrality, sex, falconry: In one week, I crashed as many D.C. conferences as possible. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z While divorce rates have risen over the decades, domestic violence has reached epidemic proportions. Ne me touche pas… the shift in sex and power sweeping France 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z And if the new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society, “AIDS in New York: The First Five Years,” were about any other epidemic, that is what it might evoke. Exhibition Review: ‘AIDS in New York,’ at New-York Historical Society 2013-06-06T21:55:45Z The obesity epidemic among children in the U.S. has been an ongoing health crisis, particularly fueled by fast food in the last few years. YouTube influencers feeding kids unhealthy diet habits with junk, fast foods: study 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Even before the pandemic, loneliness had been deemed an official epidemic in several countries. Boyfriends for rent, robots, camming: how the business of loneliness is booming 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z There’s an epidemic of autism in Silicon Valley. The man who wants us to embrace autism 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z Wicked cold grips the place in the winter of 1814, and a smallpox epidemic decimates the population. History Lives in Fiction: From Jennie Churchill’s Britain to Jacksonian Cincinnati 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z They say the epidemic “seems out of control and has evolved into a major humanitarian crisis”. Ebola epidemic: experimental drugs to be rushed to Africa 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Shouldn’t we at least wonder why they’re encouraging us to invest with a bank whose role in the 2008 global financial crisis unleashed a historic epidemic of foreclosures and unemployment? Beyoncé, Jay Z redefine ‘guilty pleasure’ on this tour The wage theft epidemic Topics: In These Times, , wage theft, Budget cuts, Low wage, , , This article originally appeared in In These Times. The wage theft epidemic 2013-02-20T16:00:00Z An epidemic of absence Topics: Allergies, , , Health, This article is excerpted from "An Epidemic of Absence," available from Scribner. An epidemic of absence 2012-09-09T13:00:00Z Not one of his policies excludes pandemics or epidemics. Perspective | What’s the best travel insurance for your fall trip? It depends. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z New York City’s restaurants are in the midst of an epidemic of not-goodness. Highbrow House Cocktails That Aim Too High 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z It’s a gorgeously brutal ballad about opioid addiction, an epidemic currently making big headlines — and it captures Clark at her best, humanizing a silent struggle that’s too often shrouded in shame. Is Brandy Clark the most empathetic storyteller in country music? 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z I had learned earlier while walking through town that Dubrovnik had built the Lazareti in the 1600s as a plague hospital and quarantine site for visitors from places with epidemics — all of us these days. Kayaking through the past in Dubrovnik, Croatia 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z The overarching problem with women and alcohol, though, doesn’t seem to be an epidemic of female alcoholism. Drinking and sexual assault: America’s booze culture is sexist 2013-09-16T15:07:00Z The epidemic of child marriage is starkly illustrated in National Geographic’s “Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides.” Top 5 investigative videos of the week: Moon property for sale 2013-04-06T18:00:00Z “Only when it became clear how quickly the epidemic of HIV/Aids was taking hold … taking millions of lives around the globe, did a global awareness emerge,” De Jonge said. Dementia poses threat to health similar to HIV and Aids, summit told 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z If you survive a war or epidemic, your sense of life and the world is changed. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z The epidemic has gone largely unnoticed because urban feral dogs and cats have extraordinary skills at remaining invisible. Baby chimpanzee killed by adult at L. A. Zoo 2012-06-27T13:33:00Z “The epidemic is out of control,” declared the organization’s director of operations, Bart Janssens. If news media had covered Ebola sooner, could latest outbreak have been contained? In a 2015 report, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced that deaths caused by overdosing from prescription drugs and heroin had “reached epidemic levels.” Nan Goldin Survived an Overdose to Fight the Opioid Epidemic 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z In private, Stipe was also deeply affected by the emotional impact of the epidemic. R.E.M.’s “Monster” and the legacy of an unsung melancholic masterpiece 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z However: “If you would ask me the three things Philadelphia most needs to conquer the epidemic, I would tell you, ‘Nurses, more nurses and yet more nurses.’” Nurses are trying to save us from the virus, and from ourselves 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z But critics of the industry say Insys was a latecomer to profiting from the epidemic, opportunistically seizing on the chance to sell more drugs only in recent years. 'They're drug dealers in Armani suits': executives draw focus amid US epidemic 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z “When we decided to change our traditional food for industrial food, this epidemic of obesity shot up.” The Fight to Save the Traditional Tortilla 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z In this age of rising mobility, giddy gentrification and shrinking attention spans, historical amnesia spreads like an epidemic: It may be asymptomatic for years, but eventually it’s fatal to our respect for bygone days. In the age of distraction, one small publisher keeps local history alive in sepia tones 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z This is just a small snapshot of the current epidemic of vaping-related illnesses sweeping through the United States, all linked to the continuing surge in e-cigarette use. Nicotine sickness: the latest vaping scare 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z “Expanding sustainable access to treatment is essential, but we will not treat ourselves out of the Aids epidemic,” said Piot. HIV epidemic will rebound dramatically without more funding, warn experts 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z We are frequently reminded that we are experiencing an obesity epidemic that threatens the nation’s health, and the solution is to diet and exercise to lose weight. Lighten up, dieters! Focus on health, not weight 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z For years now, the US has been engulfed in an unprecedented epidemic. Downward spiral: how addiction decimated a Wyoming family 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Low self-esteem is an epidemic even more widespread than our newfound penchant for cosmetic contouring. My daughter needs plastic surgery – how can I tell her? | Dear Mariella 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z "It's an epidemic here, like in Biafra," Comrade Doctor says, "I have worked in villages before, but I've never seen anything like this." Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Four 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z It had the unfortunate effect of contributing to the obesity epidemic, as food manufacturers substituted sugar and other carbohydrates for fat in everything from yoghurts to ready meals. High-fat Mediterranean diet does not cause weight gain, study finds 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z One final example shows that the biblical epidemic of crotch grabbing had not entirely died out in the Victorian era. The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 2013-05-11T12:30:00Z “Schools are, thus, forced to attack the epidemic from multiple angles, each requiring significant expenditures of their limited resources.” More than a dozen US school districts sue Juul and other vape companies 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z “We need additional financial resources to safely resume vaccination campaigns and prioritise immunisation systems that are critical to protect children and avert other epidemics besides Covid-19,” Fore said. UN urges resumption of mass measles and polio vaccinations 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z Ending the epidemic, however, is going to be hard. Epidemic of untreatable back and neck pain costs billions, study finds 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z "Indonesia is a big concern, a big epidemic, a big population, and very little control," said Dr. Prabhat Jha, a tobacco control expert at the University of Toronto's Center for Global Health Research. American Idol winner sparks smoking debate 2010-04-20T18:43:00Z She went to graduate school at Cornell and did her earliest field work in Taiwan, gathering villagers’ views on hepatitis during an epidemic of the disease. An Anthropologist Investigates How We Think About How We Think 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z But this new documentary series explores a far grimmer side of American drug use: the heroin epidemic. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘American Horror Story’ and ‘Dopesick Nation’ 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Copeland’s advice is standard fare in the charismatic Christian tradition, but is also medically unsound as the US faces its worst flu epidemic in a decade. Evangelical Trump adviser tells people to skip flu shots in favor of prayer 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z “It was profoundly important for me as a transgender person that I document and share trans and gender nonconforming experiences and life stories from the early epidemic,” he said. For Pride Week at the Joyce Theater, a Painful Look Back 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Now that we are alert to the fake news epidemic, those of us who care about the truth will develop antibodies. Can smarter clickbait save us? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Don't bother to venture West to visit, and by all means don't even dream of spreading the nation's virulent epidemic of gratuitous mean-spiritedness to this corner of the country by moving here. A Celebration of Black Southern Food, at JuneBaby in Seattle 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Is it an epidemic of pain in our society that’s actively fueling this epidemic of addiction? Pain management 2012-11-08T21:57:00Z There are excesses: in the Philippines, a grisly re-creation of Christ’s Crucifixion on Good Friday, and, in Sierra Leone, a belief that the recent Ebola epidemic was a manifestation of divine anger. Review: ‘Sacred,’ a Global Group Portrait of Faith in Action 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Homophobic bullying in schools in this country is still epidemic. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z And rather than beginning four to five weeks into the epidemic, it will portray a world just beginning to confront a shattering upheaval. To Live and Not Die in L.A.: ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ on AMC 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Now Haggis, 64, who is working on a documentary about the early days of the Aids epidemic in San Francisco, said he enjoys greater artistic contact with the outside world, including at international film festivals. Hollywood? It’s finished, claims Oscar-winning director who fled to New York 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z Drill music originated in Chicago, which has endured an epidemic of violence and where one rapper in a drill feud, Joseph Campbell, known as Lil JoJo, was shot dead in 2012. Amid London’s Crime Surge, Authorities Take Aim at ‘Drill,’ a Bleak Style of Rap Music 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Given the current narcissism epidemic, that’s a little too self-serving for comfort. Celebrity moms make me feel better about myself 2013-09-05T22:59:00Z Its ominous, erotic subtext refers obliquely to the epidemic and the fear of infection, but in a spirit of sexual defiance. ‘Test,’ Set in the Year H.I.V. Screening Arrived 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Adapting to the epidemic, artists immediately began to explore the possibilities of “distributed” theater on Zoom, Instagram, YouTube and other social media. This Is Theater in 2020. Will It Last? Should It? 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Because the Aids disease is caused by a virus, but the Aids epidemic is not. Elton John tells Aids conference: 'I should be dead. I nearly died' 2012-07-23T23:02:19Z That correlation made headlines in light of the alarming epidemic of opioid abuse in the US. New medical marijuana research could greenlight more uses in treatment 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Doctors now face a burnout epidemic: thirty-five per cent of them show signs of high depersonalization, a type of emotional withdrawal that makes personal connections with their patients difficult. Why Doctors Should Organize 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z “I could see this epidemic coming, and I could see a train that was not going to stop. Nobody would listen in the first five years.” These mothers saw the opioid epidemic before anyone else. No one listened 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z It’s been a tough couple of years for clowns, what with Pennywise being the face of a popular monster film based on Stephen King’s It, which followed an epidemic of sightings of silent creepy clowns. Halloween myths and urban legends that just won't die 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z The condition came to doctors’ attention in the 20th century after a series of mystery epidemics in which large numbers of people were struck by unexplained weakness and fatigue. ‘It was like being buried alive’: battle to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells recently lamented what he describes as an “epidemic” of these concoctions: The Latest Happy Hour Rip Off: $1 for 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z In fact, "Station Eleven" spends almost no time focused on the actual epidemic. Apocalyptic fiction helps us deal with the anxiety of the coronavirus pandemic 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z This is an industry problem; the obesity epidemic began in 1980. Robert Lustig: the man who believes sugar is poison 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Looking out at the trail of devastation and death that the heroin epidemic has left in its wake, it’s hard to imagine that not long ago one could purchase the drug from a Sears catalogue. The real reason cocaine, heroin and marijuana are illegal has nothing to do with addiction 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Fiona and Claire’s shattered relationship is, in its way, another casualty of the epidemic, in that the illnesses and deaths of so many of Fiona’s friends more or less exhausted her capacity for love. Surviving AIDS, but at What Cost? 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Opioid users are predominantly light-skinned, and are victims of an 'epidemic.' Don’t Call Her a Victim: After Surviving Opioids, Nan Goldin Goes After the Makers 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Q. What condition seems to be epidemic on overcrowded Metro cars? Style Invitational Week 1341: Portmanteautapping E to R 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z The cause of the obesity epidemic is refined carbs, high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated fats, other processed foods, sodas, and portion sizes. Seize the Morning: The Case for Breakfast 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z We spoke to Lankford, a criminal justice professor at the University of Alabama, about the Virginia shooting, other workplace shootings, and the big picture of the nation’s gun-violence epidemic. Mass shootings and the dark side of American exceptionalism: “They happen because there’s a large gap between what people are aspiring to and what they can realistically achieve” 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The decade before the pandemic saw increasing reports of a “loneliness epidemic.” Meet the introverts who are dreading a return to normal 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The decline of the coal industry has brought even more economic hardship to these isolated hills and hollows — providing fertile ground for Appalachia’s signature epidemic. In Appalachia, Crafting a Road to Recovery With Dulcimer Strings 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Seven thousand people got sick in the cholera epidemic. Port-au-Prince, city of survivors: Voices from Haiti, after the devastating 2010 earthquake 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Because of this, Konakov believes the HIV epidemic among gay men remains invisible. How homophobia feeds Russia’s HIV epidemic 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z His father, a physician, died in the flu epidemic of 1918, and he was reared as an only child by his mother in Hollywood. Cyril Harris Dies at 93; Fine-Tuned Concert Halls 2011-01-09T02:20:26Z But whatever you choose to call the unhappiness that runs like a flu epidemic through the play, it produces a gamut of symptoms. Theater Review: ‘Ivanov,’ With Ethan Hawke, From Classic Stage Company 2012-11-12T03:00:00Z “Now, youth vaping is an epidemic. If the federal government is not going to act to protect our kids, San Francisco will,” he said. The great vape debate: are e-cigarettes saving smokers or creating new addicts? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Rather, it results in an epidemic of suicides by people who no longer see any point of working through their problems in this life if they can simply transition to the next. What’s on TV Friday: ‘13 Reasons Why’ and ‘Five Came Back’ 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z “Few people personified the epidemic’s long history in America more than Cox,” France writes. The man behind “How to Survive a Plague” taught us how to be activists 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Would you say that the obesity epidemic in the US is due to food addiction above all else? Is America hooked on food? 2012-11-28T23:02:00Z It is quickly becoming a financial epidemic — in addition to a medical one — and all of it could be effectively addressed by creating better access to more kidneys. The tragedy of American organ donations: So many more people could be saved 2014-03-23T14:00:00Z Zhao, who emigrated from China when she was eighteen, said that her book drew on “the epidemic of indentured labor and human trafficking prevalent in many industries across Asia, including in my own home country.” In Y.A., Where Is the Line Between Criticism and Cancel Culture? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Modelling by the Centre for Mental Health forecasts that as many as 10 million people will need new or additional mental health support as a direct result of the coronavirus epidemic. Covid poses 'greatest threat to mental health since second world war' 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z I mean, so they were incredibly sad stories, but at the same time they buoyed me because I realized, oh my gosh, I am not alone in this pervasive epidemic. Gretchen Carlson on #MeToo, from Fox News to McDonald's: "We need men in this fight" 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, this can also create the impression that panic is productive as a way of changing behavior, when it actually contains the seeds of the next epidemic. Getting prescription meds right 2013-02-18T16:00:00Z Duncan Phillips transformed his family home into the museum after his father, a Pittsburgh window glass millionaire, died suddenly in 1917 and his older brother succumbed to the influenza epidemic the following year. At 100, the Phillips Collection doesn’t seem to have aged 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z The epidemic rages on, globally, yet much of the urgency of earlier activism has been lost. An AIDS-Era Musical in an Age of Marriage Equality 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Of course, if we had only three networks, we still wouldn’t know a thing about the hoarding epidemic. Critic?s Notebook: Reality TV Debate - Critic?s Notebook 2011-10-07T21:28:36Z The health implications of a disproportionately black obesity epidemic are already staggering. Strange Fruit: Skittles, Trayvon Martin and Corporate Responsibility 2013-07-18T08:00:49Z Because, you know, obesity is an epidemic, and people need advice, and Jared Fogle makes bank. Sometimes, you can’t love yourself at any size: How I lost 160 pounds 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z “Every single one of us can make a difference in the flattening of the epidemic curve,” she says. Covid-19 recoveries: 'It was the most terrifying experience of my life' 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z There's an epidemic of male loneliness, the headlines tell us, and the pundits are saying, essentially, that maybe this is a problem for women to solve. How to survive—and thrive—in "The Heartbreak Years" 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z Dr. Steven C. Schlozman of Harvard Medical School talks about how the brain works and which parts of it would probably be damaged if a zombie epidemic were to strike. Television Review: ‘Zombie Apocalypse,’ on Discovery Channel 2012-12-17T22:47:45Z “Sure, life brings some disappointments, haters, misunderstandings, monstrous epidemics,” he added. Their Wedding Day Was ‘Divinely Appointed’ 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z “So-called lockdowns can help to take the heat out of a country’s epidemic.” Studies suggest very few have had Covid-19 without symptoms 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z The sense of an “epidemic” now drives popular discussion of loneliness – and that can itself skew possible solutions, according to Fay Bound Alberti, the cultural historian. Can loneliness be cured with a pill? Scientists are now asking the question 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Watch enough of these shows and you come to suspect that they are treating the symptoms of an epidemic, not the causes. Critic?s Notebook: There?s a Canine Conspiracy! Television Reveals It! 2011-01-07T18:32:10Z Through much of that decade, many of California’s vineyards were ravaged by the second phylloxera epidemic, so demand for new plant material was immense. What spring means for a Virginia winery at the top of its game 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z A harried mother who resents her husband because he's the kind that has a habit of reading out loud the bits from the paper that claim the obesity epidemic is, nine-times-out-of-ten, the mother's fault. At home and abroad, the supermarket is the church where I worship 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z In the haunting “Dream of Ding Village”, an HIV epidemic caused by contaminated blood plasma shows how corruption ripens into tragedy. Build, and they will come 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “The question was,” he recalled, “how do you continue to have an erotic life during an epidemic and not die? Minter’s work offered a strong feminist voice leading the way.” Lush Morsels From an Artist’s Erotic Imagination 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z “I’m not going to say that the obesity crisis is caused by the sleep-loss epidemic alone,” says Walker. The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life: the new sleep science 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Village chapels still bear testimony to the epidemic. How Plagues Shape the Landscape 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z It will be a simple one, however, as continued epidemic control efforts in the city mean that big gatherings are still frowned upon and hotels are not taking bookings. Love wins: wedding preparations resume in Wuhan as coronavirus lockdown lifts 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z In August, Joe rallied to join an eight-member Inter-Allied Medical Mission, in Poland, where, Elizabeth wrote, the Red Cross “has been given the tremendous work of handling the typhus epidemic” originating in Eastern Europe. The Second Man in the Front Row: A Forgotten Story of the First World War 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z She goes all out to fit in, but the game changes when there’s an epidemic of violent fainting-writhing spells. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2016 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The story of a small town where a toxin causes the residents to become insanely psychopathic and the army comes in to contain the epidemic also received a surprising amount of positive reviews. "Crazies" remake influenced by post-9/11 world 2010-03-02T04:09:00Z Dig deeper and a question arises: why an epidemic now? Love couldn't break heroin's grip as sons became casualties of epidemic 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Many whites left Memphis following a yellow-fever epidemic in the late 1870s, and Church took advantage by investing in real estate. On a Memphis street, a microcosm of American culture 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The two books share a plot device in encephalitis lethargica, a real epidemic in the early 20th century which caused some patients to slip into a coma for decades. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z “Our historical memory of epidemics is short, and that’s natural,” said Jessica Play, who oversees historical quarantine stations on the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. How Plagues Shape the Landscape 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z In the first years of the epidemic, most of the discussions in the gay community were limited to distributing information about the disease. Can AIDS activism battle the Tea Party? 2012-07-24T15:15:00Z He had become a fan of overtly military tactics, and, faced with the emergence of L.A.’s crack epidemic, found his metier. Could the Night Stalker have terrorized Los Angeles today? 2013-06-09T18:00:00Z I’ve spent a lot of time contemplating theater and epidemics — about a decade ago, I defended a doctoral dissertation on their relationship — without ever really thinking I would experience something like this. When a Pandemic Arrives at the Playhouse Door 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z “Grieving,” originally published in Spanish in 2011, is considered one of contemporary Mexico’s first literary reckonings with its epidemic of violence. Mexico’s War on Its Citizens’ Bodies 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Geldof, however, was critical of Germany's response to the crisis, saying its leaders were not "doing enough" to tackle the epidemic. Geldof: Band Aid single sales 'manic' 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Both pellagra and rabies are important, however, because they were epidemic during a key period in vampire history. More "disease" than "Dracula" — how the vampire myth was born 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z “If America doesn’t have more men than other countries and doesn’t have more mentally ill people than other nations, then what is different about us that causes this almost exclusively American epidemic?” Chris Murphy’s gun-control crusade has arrived back where it began 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z “Purdue Pharma created the epidemic and profited from it through a web of illegal deceit,” the complaint states. Uptown, Sackler Protests. Downtown, a Sackler Fashion Line. 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z “Across all settings, decriminalization of sex work could have the largest impact on the HIV epidemic among sex workers over just 10 years,” Shannon said. Legalize sex work, ax the HIV rate 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z “It’s a topic nobody talks about, but over the past 20 years it’s become an underground epidemic in most cities.” Baby chimpanzee killed by adult at L. A. Zoo 2012-06-27T13:33:00Z Still, Frieden said the model was positive because it showed how efforts to isolate infected individuals and change burial practices could “break the back” of the epidemic. As many as 1.4 million could be infected with Ebola by January, CDC warns 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z A heartbreaking account of life and death in Wuhan hospitals at the height of the coronavirus epidemic in China. Perspective | Best movies of 2020: Diverse thrills, chills, Dickensian laughs and a pandemic-friendly trip to Greece 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z An AIDS-free generation: It seems an audacious goal, considering how the HIV epidemic still is raging around the world. New AIDS optimism 2012-07-09T08:19:00Z Mitchell was born in Canada in 1943 and spent her childhood in rural Saskatchewan, a survivor of a late polio epidemic and passionate about the arts. This Is Why Joni Mitchell Is Your Favorite Artist’s Favorite Artist 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z That same month, the New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, said the state was on track to meet its goal to end the Aids epidemic by the end of 2020. 'Invisible epidemic': progress against HIV leaves young Latino men behind 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z I wonder how the abundance of films and TV shows with these narratives desensitizes all of us to the global epidemic of violence against women. Dead women, killer ratings: “Game of Thrones,” “True Detective” and TV’s epidemic of violence against women 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z The approach gained currency amid an HIV epidemic involving injecting drug users who often shared needles. The shelter that gives wine to alcoholics | Tina Rosenberg 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z It’s a dreamlike story of dystopia, set on an unnamed island that’s being engulfed by an epidemic of forgetting. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z "We needed to send a message to the people about the epidemic and also the possibility to be cured." Defying stigma, survivors join the Ebola fight in West Africa 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z What Biss is getting at is distrust of the other, an epidemic that cuts both ways. Eula Biss' 'On Immunity' is a beautiful shot of insight 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Wojnarowicz was profoundly angry at a government that barely acknowledged the epidemic and at political forces that he believed used AIDS, and the art created in response, to demonize homosexuals. ArtsBeat: After a Flap, a Work Draws Attention 2010-12-09T20:09:00Z Ten years ago, the HIV epidemic was only going up in sub-Sahara Africa. Happy Birthday...Susan Sarandon, Buster Keaton, Cromwell, Jackie Collins, Ann Rice...and mothers2mothers 2011-10-04T08:51:12Z The crack epidemic, when it swept in, took advantage of a place already made vulnerable. From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Over Christmas I read two daunting tales of epidemic mortal illness. A plague in both these novels: why does disease make such infectious fiction? 2011-01-12T17:28:16Z It's a rallying cry, born in the midst of a devastating epidemic. HBO's heartfelt "We're Here" is the drag show America needs now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z The underlying idea – the horror of being unable to convey your inner feelings – is updated by Phillips in the light of today’s mental health epidemic. Madness in the movie: in defence of going gothic 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Our grief and vulnerability give way to anger and we search for the cause and the solution to this epidemic, hoping to avert the next such disaster. We need a new way to talk about guns: Blame, rage and UCLA 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Donald Hooton Sr., Taylor's father and the foundation's president, depicted teen doping as an epidemic fueled by widespread ignorance among parents and coaches. Survey finds sharp increase in teen use of human growth hormones 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Samantha Bee took Republicans to task for the gun violence epidemic on this week’s “Full Frontal.” Stephen Colbert Recaps ‘Episode One’ of the Jan. 6 Hearings 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z The Economic Community of West African States said the talks in Accra aimed to strengthen its members' response to the epidemic. Ebola epidemic will get worse before it gets better, top US health body warns 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z The epidemic of addiction has been called a public health crisis by local and national leaders. In new song, Macklemore condemns 'big pharma,' docs for opioid addiction 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The epidemic benefited the Pilgrims, who arrived soon thereafter: The best land had fewer residents and there was less competition for local resources, while the Natives who had survived proved eager trading partners. Why the Pilgrims were actually able to survive 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z His suggestion that better-functioning health systems might have made the epidemic worse in its early stages is questionable. Best practice 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Polk’s case made national headlines as an embodiment of the cruelty of America’s foreclosure epidemic, which riddled Akron with empty homes and eviction notices, and the scourge of predatory lending. 'A failure of our system': inside a damning take on the Great Recession 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Explain how a single paragraph of medical literature propelled the Oxycontin epidemic. Sam Quinones outlines the path of addiction from painkiller to heroin 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Angels in America, of course, is a two-part epic that chronicles the lives of several gay men as they navigate Reagan’s America and the Aids epidemic. Andrew Garfield, queer-baiting and the perils of 'playing gay' 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z As in 1981 – the epidemic’s very first year – most belonged to communities that were stigmatised, marginalised, feared, or hated. Life on the frontline of the Aids epidemic | David France 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Réunion received immigrants from so many places, that there was nearly always some epidemic to worry about. How Plagues Shape the Landscape 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z The drama will be set in early 1980s Los Angeles and depict a family struggling through the era of Reaganomics and the crack epidemic, HBO said. Snoop Dogg Developing Drama Series With HBO 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z The acclaim of Griffith’s masterwork made his virulent, derisive depiction of blacks all the more toxic — indeed, potentially epidemic. Madea Meets the Ku Klux Klan 2011-11-17T15:13:07Z Prevention, education and early intervention all matter but something far more fundamental and deep-rooted also has to shift because inequality and male power are at the root of this epidemic. Rachel Louise Snyder: ‘Domestic abuse is as common as rain' 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z And after surviving one deadly epidemic, Paul did not expect to find himself threatened by another. The man in the iron lung 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z While many debate their right to carry big guns or their complicity in the gun epidemic, Mr. Brownell is, it seems, the only one who does not need to answer. How Civil Must America Be? 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z She happened to be diagnosing the new culture of dressing to suppress the enemy and to withstand cataclysm—a sartorial expression of epidemic P.T.S.D. From Grunt Style to “Warcore,” Civilians Are Embracing Military Fashion 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z The HIV epidemic, he said, “is at a precarious point”, with funding 20% short of where it needs to be and people with HIV being put on treatment at a slower pace than before. UNAids chief refuses to quit over handling of sexual misconduct claims 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The opioid epidemic is the deadliest drug crisis in American history. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘The Mindy Project’ and Three Documentaries 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Delays were caused by toxic lead released by the fire, winter storms and then by the COVID-19 epidemic which closed the site in March. Builders back at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris after coronavirus shutdown 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z It is an unforgettable, heartbreaking evocation of the early days of the epidemic, when gay men were forced to become their own scientists, lobbyists, archivists. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Red meat and animal fat are the cause of the current epidemic of cardiovascular disease? 'Case for Sustainable Meat' takes on many sacred cows 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z We are suffering from an epidemic of loneliness, even as we live immersed in our technologies of hyperconnection. Building Back Better — One Community at a Time 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z In our born-again circles, word spread through church newsletters arguing that Christians could no longer be complacent over the epidemic of premarital sex. True love waits? The story of my purity ring and feeling like I didn't have a choice 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z “Fed Up,” which is narrated by Ms. Couric, argues that food companies and their lobbyists have systematically misled consumers for decades, resulting in the world’s obesity epidemic. The Carpetbagger: Sundance: A Food Documentary That Hopes to Start a Movement 2014-01-20T18:52:17Z Local victories have had a significant impact in pushing back against the epidemic and saving lives. These mothers saw the opioid epidemic before anyone else. No one listened 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z He was accused of causing a measles epidemic. ‘Noble Savages’: fierce tribes and occupational hazards 2013-02-13T22:32:44Z In the context of a school shooting epidemic, this is a devastating and debilitating reality. I'm a teacher educator, and my work has never felt so hopeless 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z But the obesity epidemic is fiendishly complicated, intertwined with poverty and not likely to change with an easy fix. What’s really killing Americans today 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Slovenia became the first European country on Thursday to declare an official end to its coronavirus epidemic. Skiers return to Slovenian resort after lockdown eases 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z The books are being written by a team at Thrive Global, started in 2016 by Huffington with the mission to “end the stress and burnout epidemic and help individuals and companies unlock their greatest potential.” Huffington teams with book publisher on wellness guides 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Evoking the Trojan war, Crusades, Black Death, Holocaust and HIV epidemic, the metaphor is too all-encompassing to be effectively dramatic. Sodome, My Love | Theatre review 2010-03-23T23:40:00Z There was instant panic about the crippling effect this new epidemic would have on schools and the health care system. Top 5 investigative videos of the week: “Poverty is what makes the rich rich” 2013-06-02T13:00:00Z A government that chooses to unpick the net of social protection, as the current coalition is doing, will damage one of the most important defences we have against epidemic disease. Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis by Helen Bynum – review 2012-11-15T08:00:06Z This results in missed opportunities for prevention and increased morbidity and mortality – hence the need for new control strategies to keep the epidemic in check. Africa innovations: 15 ideas helping to transform a continent 2012-08-25T23:05:54Z The goal of bringing the disease to below epidemic levels "is ambitious", said Mark Harrington, executive director of the anti-HIV organization Treatment Action Group, but "grounded in reality". New York state can end Aids crisis by 2020, says Governor Andrew Cuomo 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Schools and colleges shut down across the United States in mid-March because of the coronavirus epidemic, robbing students of milestone events and speeches in May and June marking the end of their formal education. Obamas, Lady Gaga, LeBron James join forces for U.S. virtual graduations 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z It’s as though the show, produced in a world fighting a real pandemic, has no grasp yet on how the story of its fictional epidemic should conclude. ‘Blindness’ Review: Listening to the Sound of Theater Again 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z There is an ongoing epidemic of zombie culture: books, films, games, zombie walks, zombie flash mobs, zombie fitness events, zombie experiences. Warm Bodies: what our love affair with zombies says about us 2013-02-08T15:00:05Z Such epidemics follow the shape of a letter S, growing exponentially at first and then leveling off. How Does Anything Go Viral? 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z “The goal, and the result to a degree, was to show people that this is an epidemic that has impacted many more of our children than anyone understands,” Cox said of his reporting. John Woodrow Cox wins Berger, Dart Awards for ‘Children and Gun Violence’ series 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z The report, called Miles to Go, said the target to end the epidemic by 2020 may not be met. UNAids chief refuses to quit over handling of sexual misconduct claims 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Still, I agree my play is indeed serene and alarmed and that’s probably what accounts for the apparent epidemic of narcolepsy amongst the audience. Elaine May Interviews Ethan Coen and Woody Allen 2011-10-16T04:57:47Z However, this new breed of epidemic found in Asia-Pacific could be replicated elsewhere, public health officials warn. Mobile dating apps spur HIV epidemic among Asia’s teenagers, says UN 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z “With such an epidemic of obesity, nowadays most of us need to cut back,” Moyer said. Harvard professor who suggested eating only 6 French fries responds to backlash 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The scientific tools now available to end HIV would not end the epidemic unless they were rolled out to all the marginalised and stigmatised people of the world. Elton John tells Aids conference: 'I should be dead. I nearly died' 2012-07-23T23:02:19Z As revealing as the show is about the extent of the dogs-gone-wrong epidemic, it also tells us something about the people who own these animals. ?Bad Dog!? on Animal Planet - Review 2011-09-09T17:17:53Z And it is her dedicated defenses of Pope Joseph Ratzinger and the Catholic Church’s handling of its child abuse epidemic that are the, bar-none, the most despicable thing about Lopez, of course. Jonah Lehrer’s male arrogance 2012-06-21T15:00:00Z She wanted to help and thought the gun-death epidemic was lacking a visual. How one art project aims to show how widespread gun violence is 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The emotional effects of the epidemic are paramount here, as they are in many families. Review: Apple-Picking Time Again, in ‘And So We Come Forth’ 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Robert De Niro has said he would be keen to play New York state governor Andrew Cuomo in a future movie about the coronavirus epidemic, as the actor made another blistering attack on Donald Trump. Robert De Niro: 'I'd like to play Cuomo in pandemic movie' 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The use of the word “epidemic” with obesity proved controversial, partly because of confusion over whether the word was meant literally or metaphorically. Movie Review: ‘Fed Up’ Descends on Villains in the Battle of the Bulge 2014-05-08T20:55:02Z Fentanyl, a prescription pain medication, often concocted in illicit laboratories overseas, has been escalating the opioid epidemic for more than a year. 'Death pill': fentanyl disguised as other drugs linked to spike in US overdoses 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Awakenings by Oliver Sacks Another example of physiological incarceration, this time caused by an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica – sleeping sickness – in the 1920's. Lesley Glaister's top 10 books about incarceration 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z Could it be that there is an epidemic of exaggeration going on, with two main offenders? My mother-in-law should apologise to me | Mariella Frostrup 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z This pandemic hasn’t created what the former surgeon general Vivek Murthy calls a “loneliness epidemic,” so much as laid it bare. The Horror of Isolation 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z They began as a way of warding off bad luck and epidemics. Japan fireworks makers to light up night skies at secret time to cheer nation 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z She said that blocking people from the event means that people who use drugs will be neglected in the response to the epidemic. UN pledges to end Aids epidemic but plan barely mentions those most at risk 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z While that idyllic landscape makes it into this new crime drama, the show also highlights a darker reality: the region’s struggle with the opioid epidemic. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Snowpiercer’ and Taylor Swift 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z To date, the epidemic has addicted millions and killed more than 500,000 people nationwide. Kaitlyn Dever on Becoming a Face of Addiction in ‘Dopesick’ 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z “Our American Family,” an intimate documentary, hopes to give a human face to the epidemic of addiction. ‘Our American Family’ Review: How Addiction Affects the Household 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z In the cultural realm, there were few literary works to guide patients, their loved ones and the public to understand the epidemic erroneously known at the time as the “gay cancer.” William M. Hoffman, playwright who put AIDS on center stage, dies at 78 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z For many companies, the ash clouds showed that existing travel crisis plans needed to deal with more than the usual list of emergencies like earthquakes, floods, civil unrest, terrorist attacks, crime and epidemics. On the Road: The Silver Lining in Those Ash Clouds 2010-09-14T05:30:00Z “Tooth decay is the greatest epidemic for children,” she said. Saving smiles, one Zollipop at a time 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z And, like Eric, they have found themselves newly immersed in the past, thinking about how the epidemic has echoed into the present and questioning their relationship with, and responsibility to, their gay elders. What Generations of Gay Men Hand Down in ‘The Inheritance’ 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z It was hard not to feel that I was negotiating with the growing epidemic. How a College Final Became a Lesson in Survival 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z “I would argue that we wouldn’t have an opioid addiction epidemic today if the Food and Drug Administration had being doing its job from the beginning,” said Kolodny. These mothers saw the opioid epidemic before anyone else. No one listened 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z The previously unreported epidemic threatens the UN’s goal to end the global Aids crisis by 2030, which appeared achievable after a sharp drop in Africa during the past 15 years. Mobile dating apps spur HIV epidemic among Asia’s teenagers, says UN 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z It will help feed those most impacted by the coronavirus epidemic in America, including children who rely on school lunch programs, low-income families, the elderly, and individuals facing job disruptions. Oprah Winfrey donates $10 million for coronavirus relief 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z “We have largely forgotten what it is like to face an epidemic sweeping through a population.” A jab for Elvis helped America beat polio. Now doctors have recruited him again… 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Such problems are epidemic in “The Tribute Artist.” Theater Review: Charles Busch’s ‘The Tribute Artist’ Is at 59E59 Theaters 2014-02-10T03:00:01Z The opioid epidemic is the white people's version of the crack epidemic, but worse – because it's legal. Netflix's "Painkiller" exposes the real drug dealers – and they're not the ones in a jail cell 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z The Ebola epidemic gripping west Africa will get worse before it gets better, the head of the top US health body warned, as health ministers from affected countries held crisis talks. Ebola epidemic will get worse before it gets better, top US health body warns 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Nimura traces the family’s journey to New York, where they arrived amid a cholera epidemic, and their subsequent decampment to Cincinnati. Two Sisters Who Changed the Medical Profession 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z The river flooded frequently and had become hideously polluted: outbreaks of dysentery, typhoid, and cholera throughout the nineteenth century led to fears of a city-destroying epidemic. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z He’s tasked him with overseeing Middle East policy, responding to the country’s opioid epidemic and reforming the criminal justice system, as well as coordinating the visit this week by Xi Jinping, the Chinese president. Stephen Colbert Was ‘Like an Alien’ Before He Was Famous, Louis C.K. Says 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Cromwell’s falcons are named after his two daughters, who, with his beloved wife, died in London’s intermittent epidemics. “Tubes”: What the Internet is made of 2012-05-28T00:30:00Z Never mind that the city was named the “suicide capital” of America in the ’80s and suffered from a heroin epidemic in the ’90s. In This Debut Novel, a Chinese Immigrant Keeps His Sleepwalking Sister’s Secrets 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z This is an epidemic we can control, and whichever side of the aisle we may stand on, we all know we can do better. Matthew McConaughey calls gun violence "an epidemic" following school shooting in hometown of Uvalde 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z As the coronavirus epidemic has people sheltering at home and looking for a new project, this might be the ideal moment for an infinity bottle boom. A Stay-at-Home Whiskey Project: The Infinity Bottle 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z A recent Pew Trusts report documents how the current opioid epidemic is contributing to this trend. Why more grandparents are raising their grandchildren 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z This sleight of hand, which is all too common in the travel business, is now a full-fledged epidemic in the car-rental industry. How to avoid overpaying for your rental car 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the people whose children were claimed by the epidemic struggled to be heard. These mothers saw the opioid epidemic before anyone else. No one listened 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z The coalition’s success is receiving national attention from peers and experts in overdose prevention, as opioid deaths have skyrocketed across the country in what many are calling an epidemic. North Carolina reverses thousands of drug overdoses amid opioid crisis 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z From this double perspective, we're shown Mr Cantor taking his duties seriously as the children in his care begin to sicken and die and the epidemic tests the community's cohesion. Nemesis by Philip Roth 2010-10-02T09:03:00Z In an episode on the obesity epidemic, the show laid out some of the consequences of weight stigma, including people’s delaying medical care for fear of doctors’ offices. Breaking Down the ‘Wellness-Industrial Complex,’ an Episode at a Time 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Even as suicide grips my thoughts, it grabs headlines, often coupled with the word epidemic. Motherlode Blog: Could Responsibilities Help Prevent Teenage Suicide? 2013-01-16T19:37:05Z While Nash is no longer an official spokesperson, she remains invested and frustrated by the epidemic. Niecy Nash: 'They want you to be the sassy neighbor or the sassy friend' 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Related: Could sourdough bread be the answer to the gluten sensitivity epidemic? Are gendered toys harming childhood development? 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z The malignant diphtheria epidemic in Louis Valley, La Crosse County, proved fatal to all the children in Martin Molloy’s family, five in number. 50 Years On, ‘Wisconsin Death Trip’ Still Haunts and Inspires 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Television and newspapers were buzzing about the nationwide flu epidemic. Thanks for nothing, Purell! 2013-03-04T17:18:00Z There’s an unexpectedly timely episode on the polio epidemic the 1950s, and the eerily familiar political debates it spawned. Jill Lepore’s New Podcast Is a Murder Mystery: Who Killed Truth? 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z First, to bust some myths: there is no global epidemic. Mental illness: is there really a global epidemic? 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z “After Josh died, I did not want to see another mother bury their child from this epidemic,” said Kresser. These mothers saw the opioid epidemic before anyone else. No one listened 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z The broadest national response was passage of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act last summer, which authorized $181 million in spending to address the opioid epidemic. Prince’s Death: One Year Later, Unsolved Mysteries 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z While we’ve made tremendous progress since the 1980s, what was once referred to as the HIV epidemic is far from over. Charlie Sheen might not be the HIV advocate you asked for — but he could be the one we need now 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z They also speak to the personal consequences of what is today an epidemic of mass incarceration: America has the largest prison population in the world, and one in 35 African-American men are in prison. Review: Memoirs From Two Eras Testify to Prison’s Corrosive Effect 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Against a backdrop of the Aids epidemic and a recommendation to fight police corruption from a royal commission into the state’s police service, sex workers succeeded in lobbying the government for change. The future of sex work – a photo essay 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z As a historian of early America who has written about tobacco and the aftermath of an epidemic in New England, I've seen similar considerations made in the face of disease outbreaks. As states weigh human lives versus the economy, history suggests the economy often wins 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z Third, drugs were involved — one new feature of Port Hope since Rob moved away is its entanglement in the nationwide opioid-abuse epidemic. Review | ‘How it Happened’ starts with a confession, but is it true? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Black transgender women live under such constant threat of violence that the American Medical Association declared the wave of murders of trans people last year an “epidemic.” Living and Performing ‘Femme Queen Joy’ 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z The coronavirus epidemic shut down movie theaters worldwide in mid-March and brought production of films to a halt. Oscars 2021 ceremony switched to April from February due to coronavirus 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z NBC News’ recent piece on rising teen heroin use only served to confirm the narrative: the spiraling use of painkillers among teens is leading to an epidemic of heroin use. Teen heroin use on the rise 2012-08-31T15:24:00Z I can’t have any opiates due to the opiate epidemic in Ohio. Don’t Call Her a Victim: After Surviving Opioids, Nan Goldin Goes After the Makers 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Instead, the commission opined, “The HIV epidemic has highlighted several ethical considerations and responsibilities, including: … the responsibility of those who are HIV-infected not to infect others.” When being HIV-positive was a crime 2013-04-02T15:15:00Z “Now, yes, everybody is getting burglarized, mugged, robbed in the streets. It’s an epidemic.” Let’s watch Fabio tell NRA TV why you should buy guns because there will be “a lot of raping” 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z For queer people of my generation and older, the epidemic shaped our understanding of life itself. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z A full-blown Ebola epidemic never occurs, leaving the show’s writers too dependent on anxious monkeys that leap out of dark corners with their fangs bared at the Army personnel tasked with catching and euthanizing them. Review | What Nat Geo’s ‘Hot Zone’ lacks in action, it makes up for in contagious paranoia 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the United States, an opioid epidemic of unprecedented proportions rages on, with prescription drug dependence giving way to the much cheaper high provided by heroin. Review | Don Winslow’s ‘The Border’ offers a harrowing look at the war on drugs 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z “The promises made to society’s most vulnerable individuals are not being kept. There are miles to go in the journey to end the Aids epidemic. Time is running out.” UNAids chief refuses to quit over handling of sexual misconduct claims 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Loneliness is epidemic, a state of affairs that MP Jo Cox was motivated and dismayed by before her murder. I am a married grandmother but I feel so lonely | Mariella Frostrup 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z Callaghan says the problem is an epidemic, particularly for female playwrights. 2016 was a stellar year for women in theater, and yet ... 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Without charts inscribed with addresses, epidemiologists are hindered in making maps to contain epidemics. What Street Names Say About Us 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z There was controversy when she was accused of making anti-gay comments in relation to the Aids epidemic; Summer allegedly said the disease was divine punishment for immoral behaviour. Pop mourns Donna Summer 2012-05-18T01:02:00Z Here he tells the story of rich tourists stranded on an island after the rest of humanity has perished from world war and epidemic. Why are we here? Evolution’s dirty secrets 2013-06-02T11:00:00Z Kane is a veteran who now operates delivery drones for an Amazon-like monopoly targeted by domestic terrorists, and Pruitt’s family chicken farm pivots to dog meat after a bird flu epidemic. What’s Wrong With Men in America? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, deaths from the current flu season reached “epidemic” levels, in part because of an unusually severe flu strain. Illness Walks the Runway 2013-01-30T23:31:57Z You read about the invention of a fluid microchip in 2009 and see a 19th-century London map charting a cholera epidemic. Exhibition Review: ?Think? at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-09-23T23:19:41Z It found the rise in global obesity rates was “rapid, substantial and widespread, presenting a major public health epidemic in both the developed and developing world”. Obesity: Africa’s new crisis 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Purdue is conducting a public relations campaign to portray itself as committed to combatting the epidemic. 'They're drug dealers in Armani suits': executives draw focus amid US epidemic 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z He can still remember exactly when he realized the epidemic was real. ‘It’s a Sin’: Sex, Adventure and Loss in 1980s London 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Given that there remains an epidemic of abuse and trauma, particularly with women as recipients, it’s interesting that the rates of migraine are also so much higher in women. Why women are more prone to migraines 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z The one about the measles epidemic in California is pretty spectacular. Roundup: Truths revealed in 'Selma,' libraries ransacked by ISIS, Vegas Strip design 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z He believes this perception of an epidemic is rooted in fact. Musical therapy 2012-05-20T20:00:03Z She became a columnist for the Atlanta Journal, writing under the name Peggy Mitchell, shortly after her mother died from the flu epidemic of 1918. Treasures: A first-edition 'Gone With the Wind'? Fiddle-de-dee! 2011-10-14T19:53:51Z Broadway theatres were shut down two weeks ago due to the coronavirus epidemic. Tony Awards for Broadway theatre postponed indefinitely, organizers say 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z “Decriminalisation of minor offences along with scaling up low-threshold HIV prevention services enabled Portugal to control an explosive, unsafe injection-linked HIV epidemic, and probably prevented one from happening in the Czech Republic.” Medical experts call for global drug decriminalisation 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z J. S., Brooklyn It’s an epidemic, all right. Social Q?s: It?s Me, Not Caring 2010-09-30T21:20:00Z When he plotted the accusations on a digital map that showed a progression over time, it struck him immediately: “It looked like a kind of epidemic, almost a disease.” Humanities 2.0: With Digital Mapmaking, Scholars See History 2011-07-26T13:43:41Z But it said there was no single measure that could halt the growing epidemic. Childhood obesity 'an exploding nightmare', says health expert 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Older terraces, abandoned and never replanted after the phylloxera epidemic of the late 1800s, lined shadier parts of the unpaved road back to the valley. Think you know Douro Valley wines? 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Some are also giving the public a glimpse of the mansions, swimming pools and designer kitchens where they are hunkering down under stay-at-home rules aimed at containing the epidemic. Tone-deaf or tuned-in? Coronavirus epidemic proves a minefield for celebs 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Deaths from the epidemic now stand at 1,229 after the disease claimed 84 victims in three days, according to the World Health Organisation. Ebola quarantine in Liberia's capital sparks violence in slum 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z In a video interview, shown above, Salon spoke with Portia King, a veteran Oklahoma state health investigator who has seen the epidemic quickly grow out out of control. Meth addiction and sex trafficking are fueling Oklahoma's growing syphilis outbreak 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z A monument to the epidemic would do three things. North America’s forgotten plague 2013-05-04T18:00:00Z I’m convinced de-scheduling the drug is needed so we can do research, help our veterans, and reverse the opioid epidemic ravaging our communities. ‘So did the world explode?’: An oral history of another insane week in the Trump era. 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z That is a staggering statistic, and Freedia wants to stop this epidemic within the African American community. "It's time for change": New Orleans' Big Freedia on working against gun violence in new documentary 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z “By 2006 the epidemic had already been going for at least seven years in West Virginia and Kentucky.” These mothers saw the opioid epidemic before anyone else. No one listened 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Every socioeconomic class, gender and race is affected by this epidemic. In North Carolina, “heroin is more accessible and cheaper than alcohol” 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z He talked about suffering from depression and once called himself a “pioneer” of the OxyContin abuse epidemic. Chris Cornell, whose Soundgarden helped forge ‘grunge’ sound, dies at 52 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Scores of traditionally blue counties that have been hit hard by the opiate epidemic flipped red, according to research conducted by historian Kathleen Frydl. The science of white working class pain: Trump’s appeal is rooted in the body as well as the mind 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Some epidemics have bred a few hospitals directly. How Plagues Shape the Landscape 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z It was an ugly, tumultuous age of French history, with economic growth and vast inequality, colonial expansion, a cholera epidemic and, more than anything else, a corrupt government dominated by ruthless self-dealers and profiteers. Perspective | I returned to the National Gallery seeking comfort. But art no longer feels like an escape. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z In previous interviews, Banta-Greeen has said the most important tool in the battle against the epidemic is the need to reduce the number of people who are prescribed opioids in the first place. In new song, Macklemore condemns 'big pharma,' docs for opioid addiction 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z There’s a definite temptation to point to 2004′s Garden State as patient zero for this particular epidemic. The Déjà Vu of Indie Movie Love 2012-07-03T14:00:36Z But he added: "It's been three decades of this epidemic, and we have seen how human beings react when those around them become HIV positive." Elton John tells Aids conference: 'I should be dead. I nearly died' 2012-07-23T23:02:19Z In 1948, Stephen Spender wrote for the Book Review about Albert Camus’s “The Plague,” a novel about an epidemic spreading across the French Algerian city of Oran. Looking at Albert Camus’s “The Plague” 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Her accomplishment is all the more remarkable because there are no records of the court sessions — Schiff sifted through archival material as well as historical accounts written by witnesses years after the epidemic. Stacy Schiff's history of Salem trials and Alex Mar's book on modern pagans offer bewitching reading 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Williams wants to see a substantial settlement agreed swiftly to help fund programs to deal with the consequences of the epidemic, such as residential addiction treatment and care of children orphaned by drug overdoses. 'They're drug dealers in Armani suits': executives draw focus amid US epidemic 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z "Both Sierra Leone and Liberia were at war 10 years ago and all the infrastructure was destroyed. It's the worst place on earth to have these epidemics," De la Vigne said. World leaders 'failing to help' over Ebola outbreak in Africa 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z In an epidemic of cynicism, it signals only another cycle of sequels. | Let Us Now Praise Infamous Men 2013-09-04T19:12:10Z A crack epidemic raged and some felt unease leaving the house dripping in jewels, flitting around in flashy dresses. Recalling the Lacroix Era 2013-04-19T23:17:23Z This is an epidemic that now claims more lives per year than car accidents. Turning a Disease Into a Sideshow 2013-07-19T18:42:51Z Meanwhile, the nation is in the grip of a worsening heroin epidemic. Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Trump and the ‘hideous monstrosity’ that was 2016 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z It’s the town featured in Rolling Stone’s expose on the heroin epidemic in Vermont. Shame by a thousand looks: The microaggressions of poverty 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Lately, though, their ranks have swollen to epidemic proportions. Scary toddlers and super creeps – helicopter parenting and the rise of 'kindergarten horror' 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z In these rural communities hit by the opioid epidemic it is just a state of misery. The reality of life in a "Dopesick" country: "It is just a state of misery" 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z It could be a natural disaster or a zombie-movie epidemic — a background event that provides atmosphere and structure rather than meaning. Review: ‘The Beguiled,’ Sofia Coppola’s Civil War Cocoon 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z At that point, the country plans to open up to visitors arriving from a list of nations where the epidemic is under control, according to Manuel Muñiz, the Spanish government’s State Secretary for Global Spain. Europe’s Patchwork Reopening 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z I saw myself and many friends in the characters, and as a 57-year-old who tested positive for H.I.V. at 27, I found the focus on the epidemic cathartic and evocative. Readers React to ‘The Inheritance’: ‘We Are All Just Humans Looking for a Purpose’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z In March, a group of more 600 US cities, counties and Native American tribes filed a lawsuit alleging that “eight people in a single family made the choices that caused much of the opioid epidemic”. Marijuana and the opioids crisis: can a 'gateway drug' become an 'exit drug'? 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z When a flu epidemic kills half the tribe, the brothers vow to protect the natives from the forces of civilization that they represent. Movie Review: ‘Xingu’ Depicts How a National Park in Brazil Came to Be 2014-03-14T02:55:35Z Charles Ortleb was the visionary editor of New York Native, a small magazine that for a long time was the only real source for news and information about the epidemic. The AIDS Fight: Andrew Sullivan on a History of the Movement 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z An end to the Aids epidemic could be in sight after a landmark study found men whose HIV infection was fully suppressed by antiretroviral drugs had no chance of infecting their partner. End to Aids in sight as huge study finds drugs stop HIV transmission 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Its eponymous jackboots don’t spout propaganda, or even bear clear responsibility for the island’s epidemic. ‘Read Receipts’ On: Two Dystopian Novels Predict the Surveillance State 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z New York City was also home to one of the youngest victims of the epidemic: a 17-year-old Bronx boy, who died this October from complications related to the illness. New York City may ban flavored vapes as soon as next week 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z “In the 21st century,” he writes, “loneliness has become an epidemic.” ‘Loneliness Kills’: A Middle-Aged Dad Seeks Friendship 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z He allegedly inspired stabbings, arson and an epidemic of suicide attempts on a South Dakota reservation. Slender Man trailer: a mythical monster worth the wait? Fat chance 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z But man, he was talking, this is happening, this is an epidemic. Emilio Estevez on making "The Public," a film about dignity, homelessness and libraries 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z As in “Children of Men,” where the world is gripped by an epidemic of infertility, the ailment here is also metaphorical. Movie Review: Ewan McGregor and Eva Green in ?Perfect Sense? 2012-02-03T00:41:58Z As with the epidemic itself, there is a generous sweep within this story — and then, just as quickly, the author refocuses the narrative attention onto the ever-changing relational fault lines between her characters. An Ominous Sleeping Sickness Paralyzes a Small California Town in ‘The Dreamers’ 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Presenting evidence for both, Ms. Marson includes law enforcement officials who investigated Dr. Hurwitz as part of a long-term effort to control a rising painkiller epidemic. Review: ‘Dr. Feelgood: Dealer or Healer?’ It’s Not a Simple Question 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z In a statement, Cal-Maine president and CEO Sherman Miller attributed the company's soaring profits to "the ongoing epidemic of highly pathogenic avian influenza, which has significantly reduced the nation's egg-laying capacity." "We must break up Big Ag," Sanders says after largest US egg producer posts 718% profit increase 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z And in an episode of opioids, Fox explores a familiar and devastating story of an American epidemic funded by big pharmaceutical companies and the inertia of inadequate regulation. The Business of Drugs: inside the economics of America's longest war 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z They're interested in what this might mean for how we regard the childhood obesity epidemic. Motherlode Blog: Early Antibiotic Use Linked to Childhood Obesity 2012-08-21T18:24:49Z “Prior to the beginning of the robo-call epidemic, we really approached the problem in two ways: law enforcement and consumer education,” she said. How robo-callers outwitted the government and completely wrecked the Do Not Call list 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z The role of screen time in the childhood obesity epidemic is a significant and growing area of concern and research. Fixing the global childhood obesity epidemic begins with making healthy choices the easier choices 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z Frontline Last year's Ebola epidemic is traced in this new episode, titled "Outbreak." Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'New Girl' on Fox 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Influenza drugs are poor and resistance to them builds up quickly during an epidemic. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen – review 2012-10-11T07:00:01Z Efforts to grapple with this obesity epidemic show the special problems this global concern causes among poorer people in developing nations. Obesity: Africa’s new crisis 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z “The Justin Chapman case showed there were breakdowns in the public defender system in Georgia that were epidemic, but those breakdowns happen all across the country,” he says. Alabama murder mystery could be the new Serial 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z In “Thresholds of Violence,” he reports on the epidemic of school shootings across the United States. Sunday Reading: The World of Malcolm Gladwell 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Though polio was not the most lethal of epidemic diseases, it transformed everywhere it touched. The man in the iron lung 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Like the epidemic, it does not seem to belong to nowadays. Lessons From the Plagues, Painted for Passover 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z At the same time, the crack epidemic was tearing neighborhoods apart. The Fashion Outlaw Dapper Dan 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z It was a commercial venture by a group of Bristol investors because the city's medieval cemeteries were bursting, swelled by thousands who died in a cholera epidemic. Victorian cemetery opens to visitors following ?5m restoration 2010-04-28T23:10:00Z But he offers important insights, especially concerning the central issue of burial practices, one of the epidemic’s main routes of infection. Best practice 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z His book, which hits stores Feb. 3, argues that there's "an epidemic of silence around money" within many families, particularly families that don't live paycheck-to-paycheck. New book helps unspoil kids after holiday gluttony 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Parents were dismayed that President Obama had so little to say, only addressing the epidemic in 2015. These mothers saw the opioid epidemic before anyone else. No one listened 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z This was the year when the “selfie” epidemic, which was already horrendous, somehow got even worse. Dave Barry’s Year in Review: The sad thing is, we’re not making this up! 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z While US politicians were still sneering about the crack epidemic among poor African-Americans, ER pointedly featured white characters from all social classes addicted to opioids. I’ve been bingeing on a 25-year-old sitcom. It’s smart, modern – and definitely not Friends | Hadley Freeman 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z As Number Two says, “One in two is an epidemic.” Review: Counting on Compassion in ‘one in two’ 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z It’s a horrible example, but even in the midst of a tragedy like the Ebola epidemic – most people are probably just living their lives. The Nigerian artist who is exploding the myth of the ‘authentic African experience’ 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z What at first seemed like isolated outbreaks of mortgage fraud in 2007 were, The Con argues, an epidemic of morally bankrupt, highly lucrative financial practices underlying a flashy house of cards. 'A failure of our system': inside a damning take on the Great Recession 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Against a backdrop of escalating chaos, Tremblay quickly homes in on two characters — one a victim, the other a caregiver — whose stories reflect the sheer human cost of an unchecked epidemic. Review | Two new horror novels make sense of our current dystopian reality 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Recent attack victims include journalists covering the Ebola epidemic in Africa and cartoonists at a French newspaper that pokes fun at political subjects. Journalists can face danger, hardships when reporting from overseas 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z And certainly there must be a tremendous amount of this sorrow and pain in people because addiction, in one form or another, has reached epidemic proportions. Pain management 2012-11-08T21:57:00Z The first in the series, Heroin Town, airing on Sunday night, embeds Theroux in Huntington, West Virginia, where overprescription of painkillers has unleashed a heroin epidemic. Louis Theroux: ‘For all his awfulness, I admire Trump’s shamelessness’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z But both of those plays are almost entirely about the epidemic, the cultural clashes it inspired, and its impact on the lives of its characters. In ‘Falsettos,’ an Affecting Echo of AIDS Anxiety 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Fears of an epidemic of the minute insects spread after a patron complained of being bitten after watching a film on Monday at the Scotiabank theatre, the event's main venue for press and industry screenings. Toronto film festival gets bed bug all-clear 2010-09-02T09:20:00Z Eating breakfast is not the cause of the obesity epidemic. Seize the Morning: The Case for Breakfast 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Likewise, the foreclosure epidemic is converting lots of homeowners into renters, thus increasing rental demand. Why Grand Plans to Fix Fannie and Freddie's Foreclosure Mess Could Misfire 2011-08-31T14:27:01Z Addiction is like an epidemic among those people, so a lifestyles of the rich and famous rehab would inevitably be a goldmine. Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z This is coupled with the fact that it seems like there's also a lonely, single-man epidemic on the rise because men are more likely than women not to be married. Our digital disillusionment with dating: When loneliness is both caused and fed by living online 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z Vaping has been declared a serious health epidemic, but it could also create a massive recycling disaster, according to researchers. Vaping’s other problem: are e-cigarettes creating a recycling disaster? 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Like news of the cholera epidemic spreading through Italy in “Death in Venice,” Mann’s 1912 novella, reports that the house was on the market were spotted first in the German press. Thomas Mann house by midcentury great J.R. Davidson: L.A.'s next big teardown? 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z “They are in fact contributing to the epidemic of gentrification that is decimating working-class communities and communities of color in cities across the globe.” Art and Real Estate Collide at Events in the Bronx and at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z It occurred to me that, for him, the Tahoe epidemic never really ended; his panel of C.F.S. patients has only grown. A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z I feel like it’s an epidemic in this culture that in order for people to get ahead they have to step on somebody’s head, you know? “Trump is kind of scary. I get the feeling he might actually pull it off”: Michael Shannon on “99 Homes,” the economic collapse and the eroding American Dream 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z She curated a show for the downtown gallery Artists Space called “Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing,” in which she asked various New York artists to respond to the epidemic. Nan Goldin Survived an Overdose to Fight the Opioid Epidemic 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z “These findings add further urgency to addressing the Saskatchewan epidemic, in which the infection burden is concentrated among the most marginalised,” he said in a statement. Mutated HIV strains in Canada may cause quicker illness, study finds 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Another unexpected feature of this year’s race is a special focus on preventing the spread of disease, which the race managers are undertaking as the novel coronavirus epidemic spreads. Iditarod race starts with pageantry and focus on preventing disease spread 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z And I think that's the one thing that was so terrifying in this epidemic was that, look at in economic terms, what OxyContin did was to create a new demand. "They knew better": Alex Gibney on Big Pharma & the opioid epidemic in "The Crime of the Century" 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The pictures of medical dysfunction were devastating — broken hospitals in Africa struggling, and largely failing, to contain the Ebola epidemic. In Haiti, Battling Disease With Open-Air Clinics 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z He was talking about gun violence, and mass shootings, and how, compared to other ostensibly advanced nations, the United States was uniquely afflicted by this epidemic. Jon Stewart's Charleston Despair 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z "You have a political and humanitarian responsibility to immediately utilise these capabilities in Ebola-affected countries. "To curb the epidemic, it is imperative that states immediately deploy civilian and military assets with expertise in biohazard containment. Ebola outbreak: call to send in military to West Africa to help curb epidemic 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z They claim they are contributing to the obesity epidemic and urged shoppers to study the nutrition labels before buying them. Yogurt contributing to obesity epidemic, study claims 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Although it’s telling that we have to cite asteroids and epidemics to make recent events seem less apocalyptic, there’s no shortage of candidates for objectively worse years. The Worst Year Ever, Until Next Year 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z In 2016, the homegrown rap star executive produced the MTV documentary “Prescription for Change” about the opioid epidemic, featuring conversations between him and President Obama, and people in the Seattle area battling addiction. Macklemore becomes latest Seattle star honored for addiction recovery work with MusiCares award 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z China’s ban on foreign blood kept the pandemic at bay for a while, until the government’s insistence that Aids was a foreign disease helped create perfect conditions for a homegrown epidemic. My career as an international blood smuggler 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z American filmmaking suffers from an epidemic of gender imbalance, according to a recent report from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. The Film Fatales Collective Trains a Lens on Gender Inequality 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Soon, she found herself—perhaps I’m burying the lede, too—helping another physician, George A. Soper, to solve the mystery of a typhoid epidemic among a seemingly unconnected group of well-to-do families. The Real “Knick” 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z This is an American epidemic, a national crisis, where it has become acceptable for local police forces to view black and Latino males in inner cities as menaces to society, first, and as citizens, maybe. ‘Girls’ still racist 2012-06-22T16:56:00Z That was far from the first time that an epidemic had burned itself out. Getting prescription meds right 2013-02-18T16:00:00Z Those frustrated that a documentary about a public-health epidemic did not perform better would do well not to eat their feelings. Among Food-Concerned Moviegoers, 'Chef' Beats 'Fed Up' 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z It was a time of nearly nonexistent airline security and nearly epidemic hijackings. 'Skyjack': The story of the never-ending hunt for D.B. Cooper 2011-08-10T22:24:04Z Mr. Stoll, 40, plays a CDC scientist investigating an epidemic of vampirism; by Season 2, his wig was gone. Corey Stoll on Shakespeare Boot Camp and Killing Tiny Vampires 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z These augmented dreams are the result of a sleeping epidemic that starts in the fictional college town of Santa Lora, in California, then quickly spreads. Review | Dreams are dangerous — and contagious — in Karen Thompson Walker’s apocalyptic thriller 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z David France’s masterful account of the epidemic offers plenty of opportunity for outrage. The AIDS crisis in America... 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z The mayor of the West Virginia city that has come to symbolise America’s opioid epidemic has called for the jailing of pharmaceutical company executives he likens to street corner drug dealers. 'They're drug dealers in Armani suits': executives draw focus amid US epidemic 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z With the reluctant help and eventual admiration of army surgeons William Stipp and James Blevens she – and we – become embroiled in a sweeping, graphically detailed saga of amputations, epidemics and unspoken romance. First novels: Catherine Taylor's roundup - reviews 2011-02-26T00:07:44Z In 1993 her clear vision of an American landscape where Los Angeles is burning, drugs are epidemic, racism rages and guns do the loudest talking was eerily prescient. Picture Books About Kindness, Compassion and Peace in a Turbulent World 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z The island escaped the 19th century phylloxera epidemic that ravaged vineyards and erased countless grape varieties on continental Europe, and thus boasts vines up to 500 years old. A New Generation of Mediterranean Wines 2010-07-21T10:15:00Z Through F.B.I. wiretap recordings, undercover videos and jailhouse interviews, the documentary explores the lives of the George twins and how they helped fuel one of the worst drug epidemics in U.S. history. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Fight the Power’ and ‘The Ark’ 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z “The very nature of this epidemic is one of uncertainty, not knowing whether you have come into contact with the virus,” Dr. Vyse said. We’re Holding Tight to Our Good Luck Talismans 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z He’s such a sharp observer of human nature that he notices something different about Evie, a new inmate arrested for murder just as the epidemic begins. Stephen King and Owen King imagine a world where women aren’t woke 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z “A surge now can break the back of the epidemic.” As many as 1.4 million could be infected with Ebola by January, CDC warns 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z And it keeps going, because the behavior is so epidemic. Jane Fonda Is Paying Close Attention 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z White successfully cultivated it, substituting it for cayenne, and then shared the chili with fellow Louisianans — along with results of medical trials showing it proved effective in stemming the cholera epidemic. How did hot sauce get in so many African Americans’ bags, anyway? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z This epidemic supposedly fosters a fragile-flower climate, cosseting and infantilizing young adults while punishing dissent and discouraging free speech, all against a backdrop of almost comical histrionics. Gene Weingarten: A mea culpa (no offense to the Romans!) 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z He claims that he and his followers survived the epidemic because of their divine goodness and not because of luck. Apocalyptic fiction helps us deal with the anxiety of the coronavirus pandemic 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z The critics see the civic bonds that Lasch believed were fraying threatened anew by an epidemic of individualistic, self-seeking, and self-promoting behaviors especially evident among the young, the most narcissistic generation in history. Lay off Kim and Kanye! Why millennials actually aren’t “Generation Me” 2014-04-06T15:00:00Z And Philip Roth's latest novel, Nemesis, in which he returns to Newark to tell the story of a 1944 polio epidemic, will be available from Thursday. Freedom is not the only book in town 2010-10-03T18:59:00Z Related: Living with anxiety: Britain's silent epidemic My last attack, in the autumn of 2013 and spring of 2014, was the worst yet. 'Sick and asphyxiating' – why we live in an age of anxiety 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z “A very severe epidemic will occur this winter unless the necessary equipment and supplies are received to enable the medical authorities to deal energetically with the situation.” The Second Man in the Front Row: A Forgotten Story of the First World War 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z The film also seems unsure about its own shape, switching indecisively between creature feature, epidemic thriller and environmental drama without articulating any meaty ideas. ‘Sea Fever’ Review: A Timely but Derivative Contagion Thriller 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Strange to think that in the midst of the #MeToo era, many people consider Hoffman and Spacey to be at least as disagreeable a prospect as any deadly epidemic. What can we learn about coronavirus from watching Contagion? 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Surgeon General Vivek Murthy referred to loneliness as a public health epidemic in 2017, warning that chronic loneliness places people at greater risk of depression, anxiety and developing heart disease and dementia. In "The Last of Us," Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett battle loneliness at the end of the world 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z “The childhood obesity epidemic might thus be playing a key role in promoting inflammation,” reports the Nature Medicine paper. Chronic inflammation is frightening. Here’s what you can do about it. 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z In the book, the world suddenly, inexplicably succumbs to an epidemic of blindness and then society crumbles. When Tragedy Strikes, What Does Criticism Have to Offer? 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z Studying the data at several years’ distance, researchers last year were able to confirm that vaccine refusal helped fuel the epidemic. California’s whooping cough outbreak is officially an epidemic 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z When he had the handle removed from the pump, the cholera epidemic stopped immediately. Why the modern bathroom is a wasteful, unhealthy design 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z |
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