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Photos from Refugee Camps in Chad
- A portfolio of images from refugee camps in Chad, by Christoph Bangert.
January 05, 2009
AUDIO
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Joy Revision
- In this issue, Ariel Levy writes about “The Joy of Sex.” Here Levy talks about the genesis of Dr. Alex Comfort’s original 1972 edition, how society has changed since then, and whether the new revised edition still fills a societal need.
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Sexual Evolution
- This week in the magazine, Ariel Levy writes about “The Joy of Sex” Here is a comparison of the original 1972 edition, by the British scientist and physician Alex Comfort, and the new “ultimate revised edition.”
December 17, 2008
Blog: The New Yorker Blog
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2008: The Year in Shouts & Murmurs
- Here are some highlights from this year’s humor writing in The New Yorker. The plan isn’t foolproof. For it to work, certain things must happen: The door to the vault must have accidentally been left...
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2008: The Year in Cartoons
- Some of our most popular cartoons published in 2008.
August 11, 2008
Medical Dispatch
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Superbugs
- MEDICAL DISPATCH about superbugs. In August, 2000, Dr. Roger Wetherbee, an infectious-disease expert at New York University’s Tisch Hospital, received a disturbing call from the hospital’s microbiology laboratory. The lab had isolated a bacterium called Klebsiella pneumoniae from a patient in an intensive-care unit (I.C.U.). It…
September 17, 2007
Annals of Medicine
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The Colic Conundrum
- ANNALS OF MEDICINE about colic. Amanda Chase gave birth to twin girls last September, but by the time the babies were three weeks old they were crying several hours a day. Amanda suspected they had colic, a poorly understood condition whose main symptom is frequent, inconsolable crying. Her pediatrician advised…
July 28, 2008
A Reporter at Large
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Dr. Kush
- A REPORTER AT LARGE about the cultivation and distribution of marijuana in California, which the state legalized for medical use in 1996. Writer spends six months, off and on, with an old friend named Captain Blue, who is now a pot broker in Venice Beach, California. Since 1996, when a…
June 30, 2008
Annals of Medicine
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The Itch
- ANNALS OF MEDICINE about itching. Describes the case of patient M., who developed a persistent itch on her scalp in her mid-thirties. M. tried cream treatments, but the urge to scratch was irresistible. Her medical internist concluded that M.’s problem was psychiatric, perhaps related to obsessive-compulsive disorder…
May 26, 2008
Annals of Drinking
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A Few Too Many
- ANNALS OF TOXICOLOGY about hangovers and hangover cures. The hangover is a preventable malady: don’t drink. Nevertheless, people throughout time have found what seemed to them good reason for recourse to alcohol. A hangover peaks when alcohol that has been poured into the body is finally eliminated from it-that…
