I posted earlier about the new Steven Soderbergh film Contagion because my book Reprisal is also about the possibility of a pandemic occurring in the U.S. In my story, terrorists threaten to infect American school children with small pox.
What is a pandemic?
When an infectious disease breaks out over a wide geographical area affecting millions of people, …
With the anniversary of 9/11 coming up I find many people are interested in Muslims living in the United States. Some people are curious, others are worried. In the research for my book, Reprisal, I read biographies of American citizens who are Muslims and befriended several Muslim Americans in my own town, Minneapolis. I was amazed at …
People think the death of Osama bin Laden stopped one of the biggest killers in the world. He’s nothing compared to one of the oldest, most widespread killers in the history of humans—the disease of small pox.
Found in the remains of Egyptian mummies and all over ancient Asia and China, the virus has probably killed more people …
Health officials are battling an outbreak of measles spreading in the large Somali community in Minneapolis. In Pennsylvania a case of measles is traced to an Indian child. There’s a measles outbreak tracked to Maryland. A potential measles outbreak is brewing in Boston.
What’s going on?
Measles has almost been eradicated from the United States. So why is …
Is a Public Employee’s Union in California raising the cost of the prison system? Should the prisons be sold to private companies to save the states money?
In my last post, I explored the movement across the country to privatize the prison systems in many states. We looked at the high cost of maintaining prisons and one of …
There has been talk about states selling their prison systems to private companies and allowing them to run the correctional system. Is this a good idea?
At first, it looks great: the taxpayers can reduce the high cost of building, maintaining, guarding, providing medical care, and programming for offenders. Why not let a private company take-over the costs? …
I just returned from a national writer’s convention in Santa Fe. It’s called Left Coast Crime and I sat in the middle of almost 400 mystery writers. Spooky…the only thing that could be worse would be sitting among 400 lawyers!
What would be most interesting for you is the wide variety of people who write mysteries/suspense stories and …
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