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Shiro Ishii, the physician who had conceived and run Unit 731, was extensively debriefed and then allowed to return to civilian life. The existence

Even with the advantage of clothing, shelter, and boundless ingenuity, humans can manage to live on only about 12 percent of Earth’s land area

Between 1998 and August 2018, almost eight hundred children in the United States died when left unattended in hot cars. Half were under two

Spinal cord injuries are dismayingly common. More than one million people in the United States are paralyzed from them. More than half of spinal

This section is about the very real imaginary value of jewels. Think that the phrase real imagined value is a paradox? Think again. How

The Mohawks made a show of their victory, and nicely capped the terror they had caused by roasting and eating one especially unfortunate Dutchman

We don’t have any idea why we age, or actually we have lots of ideas; we just don’t know if any of them are

“For every year of added life that has been achieved since 1990, only 10 months is healthy.” Already nearly half of people aged fifty

It began, according to one account, in 1568 when Protestant citizens in towns like The Hague rebelled “in a cataclysm of hysterical rage and

At the dawn of his career as an artist, in 1881, he told a friend: “In general, and more especially with artists, I pay