Diane Ackerman is the author of the best-selling A Natural History of the Senses, among many other books of non-fiction and poetry. Her essays on nature and human nature have appeared in National Geographic, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Smithsonian, Parade and elsewhere. Ackerman’s new book is The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, [...]
Archive for March 5th, 2008
Mar5
Delegate McClellan on transportation funding woes
Delegate Jennifer McClellan (D-71) joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to discuss the final days of the regular session of the General Assembly. However, McClellan says she thinks the two Houses have to come back into special session to discuss transportation and to pass a budget. Coy also asks McClellan’s thoughts on VDOT’s 44% [...]
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Mar5
Dr. Atul Gawande seeks to make health care Better
The compulsion to do better touches us all as do the road blocks that impede our betterment: fatigue, inadequate resources and our imperfections. Yet, there is perhaps no other field in which improvement is more important than medicine, where the difference between saving or losing a life is in the smallest of details. Dr. [...]
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