He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died

Quoted: A"second generation" of DNA tests are allowing genes to "testify" in ways never before possible, in some cases resolving long-standing legal tangles but in others raising new ones.

Quoted: A survey of the workers confirmed what the plant’s nurses had suspected: those who got sick were employed at or near the “head table,” where workers cut the meat off severed hog heads.

On Nov. 28, Dr. DeVries’s boss, Dr. Ruth Lynfield, the state epidemiologist, toured the plant. She and the owner, Kelly Wadding, paid special attention to the head table. Dr. Lynfield became transfixed by one procedure in particular, called “blowing brains.”

Interesting article on meat eating.

Quoted: Got vegetables? The days of eating 200 pounds of meat a year may be on the way out.

Quoted: A no-nonsense look at the often nonsensical world of fitness clubs.

Quoted: About half the population in Kentucky does not have dental insurance, and 1 in 10 residents are missing all their teeth.

Quoted: That means the hospital would earn 63 percent more by providing inferior care.

Quoted: For as little as $1,000 and a saliva sample, customers of an infant industry will be able to learn what is known about how their biological code shapes who they are.