Dec 16th, 2005 · But cancer was a disease for other people, older people-sick people, for God's sake. I was thirty-seven and in good health, so it wasn't even a possibility lurking in the corners of my imagination on that hot July afternoon, my son's fifth birthday. I had placed five candles on the cake and was just putting on the sixth for good luck when the phone rang.
Oct 2nd, 2005 · Sex, death and cruelty. Chris Roberts, the author of Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme, tells Debbie Elliott what lurks beneath the surface of those verses we learned as children.
Aug 31st, 2005 · The flooding in New Orleans is likely to lead to a massive health crisis in the coming days, apart from the initial deaths caused by storm emergencies. Oil and chemical contamination of the floodwater, plus rotting vegetation and bodies, could lead to water-borne illness on a huge scale.
Jun 4th, 2005 · Somewhere in Virginia is the hotel parking lot where the anonymous source lurked, and where Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward went for information. But alas, some secrets of Watergate persist despite tenacious reporting.
May 8th, 2005 · There are lots of nasty characters lurking in the shadowy corners of the Internet. But Strong Bad is just awful. And he's awfully funny, too, as he assails Marzipan and Homestar Runner. Goofy humor is the hallmark of the Web site Homestarrunner.com.
Oct 26th, 2004 · With Halloween lurking just behind the next creaky door, we've invited horror scholar David Skal to join us for a discussion of celluloid vampires.