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A little-known flu virus is sickening cattle around the world. Are humans next?

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The Olympics Will Never Achieve World Peace If It Keeps Clamping Down on Free Speech

In the artillery trenches of the first World War, a German Jew named Franz Rosenzweig began to create an audacious philosophical system

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With its mania for taxonomy and penchant for tidy solutions, psychiatry is ripe for reinvention. A new book takes a swing — and misses