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COLUMN: Varicella: The virus that just won’t go away

I’ve been hauling around the virus particles for better than 40 years, taking them to mountaintops and to…

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COLUMN: Bugged by the sight of the winter mosquito

My wife said she saw a mosquito on her windshield the second week of February. I reacted to…

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COLUMN: Tarantino helps to dim Manson’s mystique

Movie director Quentin Tarantino not only dissolved the mystique that has made Charles Manson such an icon for…

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COLUMN: User manual good for a laugh, but little else

I recently bought an mp3 player and when I sat down with the user manual to try to…

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COLUMN: Government ties vinyl wrap in lots of red tape

When you write about government inefficiency you risk indulging in cliché, and I strive to avoid the pitfall…

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COLUMN: Trump & Coolidge: So similar yet so different

I was watching TV coverage of President Trump’s impeachment trial the other evening and I couldn’t help but…

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COLUMN: ‘1917’ reveals the Great War as no film before

“What was it like?” It is, perhaps, the ultimate question in human existence. A universal one, anyway. Each…

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COLUMN: Terrible but so tiny: Confronting a kidney stone

I once examined a kidney stone, fresh from my own bladder (albeit rinsed with tap water), and I…

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COLUMN: A galaxy far, far away that was always around

For me it all started what seems a long time ago, in a town quite a ways from…

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COLUMN: Change will help Herald deliver fresher news

The word “news” is, you’ve no doubt noticed, pretty much the same as “new.” This is no coincidence.…

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