This is our time to shine

Thirty-five years ago, I worked in a mailroom at a company outside New York City. It was a busy job, but it afforded wonderfully long breaks twice a day where employees would drink coffee and chit-chat.

In Memoriam

Ann Allison Gray                      80      3/11 Mary Ellen “Meg”‘Schon           55       3/14 John Sidney Gifford lll              80       3/21 Peter F. Hryniewicz                   87    […]

The more things change…

In 2013, workers digging a new high-speed rail underneath London unearthed a 14-century plague pit holding 25 victims of the Black Death. The discovery allowed researchers to extract DNA from the victims’ teeth and identify the deadly disease — Yersinia Pestis, which surprisingly is still around and simply treated by antibiotics.