Unprepared
Listen to this article here DERNA, Libya–Nearly 10,000 people in the North African country of Libya remain missing after Storm Daniel slammed into its port city, Derna. With a death toll standing at over 6,000, the lack of infrastructure and leadership in the divided nation highlights the devastating role a U.S.-backed coup continues to play. […]
Death has become taboo and overwhelming because medical improvements mean some people do not encounter it until middle-age, one of Britain’s leading forensic scientists has warned. Prof Dame Sue Black, who will give this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on the secrets that dead bodies can reveal, said death was just the bookend to birth, […]
Terrell Carter remembers one prisoner in particular. They had both been seeking commutations of their life sentence so they could eventually apply for parole. But Carter says that in the midst of the process, his fellow inmate became so debilitated with dementia that the man could no longer function well enough to complete the paperwork. […]
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