Will We Ever Conquer Cancer? Siddhartha Mukherjee
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2011, 8:00 PM Will We Ever Conquer Cancer? Siddhartha Mukherjee From a Persian queen’s brutal mastectomy in the fifth century BC to the 19th century recipients of primitive chemotherapy, humans have long tried to beat cancer. But even as we routed other scourges like cholera and tuberculosis, launched ambitious public health campaigns, […]
How Much Public Debt Can We Endure? @zocalo
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 25th, 2011, 7:30 PM How Much Public Debt Can We Endure? Charles Rappleye Ever since the American Revolution, the U.S. has run debts to finance its policy goals, thanks to a financial system created largely by one man. As the Superintendent of Finance for the rebel American government, Robert Morris instituted debt financing […]
“The Curse of Oil” Peter Maass at Zócalo
“The Curse of Oil” Peter Maass Every unhappy oil-producing nation is unhappy in its own way. But each is touched by what’s known as the resource curse — the power of oil to harm rather than help the countries that possess it. Oil extraction in Nigeria has led to village poverty and mass protest. In […]