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The Next Generation
by David Carel: It was barely 8:00 in the morning on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010. I stood in line with a group of other Yale and Harvard students for President Obama’s...
Mining for Tuberculosis
by Ashley Wu: A chest X-ray hangs in Mr. Mkoko’s door. The cavity in the upper left corner confirms what his constantcoughing already indicated: He has contracted...
Milking the Tsetse for All its Worth
by Sophie Broach: A soft buzzing filled the air in Yale’s tsetse fly insectary, as Brian Weiss heated a pool of cow blood on a metal tray. The warm, humid room...
Letter from… Orissa
by Anisha Suterwala: Uma, one of the nurses, hip checked me as she left the operating theater. Housed on the second floor of Kalinga Eye Hospital and Research Center,...
A Village Scarred
by Jessica Shor: Wang Zhidi sat on the dirt terrace outside his mountaintop home in Ta’erdi, gazing over the river that cuts through the verdant valley below....
Calling for Health
by Angelica Calabrese: In a bright, whitewashed nurse’s office overlooking Port-au-Prince, a cell phone trills loudly, and a nurse promptly answers. Marie-Claire,...
An Education
by Seth Kolker: The glistening latex of the condom stretched thinner and thinner up Alfredo Ocampos’ arm until it turned white around his thick knuckles. The condom...
Illustrating the Revolution
by Erin Biel: From amidst the tear gas, a man emerges on the television screen, brandishing a weapon. Sitting atop another’s shoulders and yelling in defiant Arabic,...
Who Else Were You Going to Vote for?
by Aaron Gertler: On May 29, 2010, the voters of Reykjavík, Iceland rejected politics as usual, dumping the Independent and Social Democratic parties in favor of...
Imagining Mumbai
by Dan Gordon: “I’ve traveled to New York, and Paris, and Berlin, and London, and Shanghai, and Kyoto, and Tokyo. But… the city of Bombay remains my favorite...
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