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“Kids Shouldn’t Go To School And Die”
Just this morning, a friend forwarded a link from Education Week‘s “District Dossier” blog, headlined “Chicago Schools to Stock EpiPens; States, Feds May Follow Suit.” The post begins: “All Chicago...
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‘This Allergies Hysteria Is Just Nuts’
The Nut Allergy Education Board on display in the cafeteria at The Catherine Cook School. Last month in Chicago, an hour before I interviewed attorney Gil Ross about the tragic death of a...
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A Super Sniffer Is Born
Puppy Number Four, still slick from the womb. “Sammy’s in labor.” The call came as I was driving through downtown Portland just after 7 on Thursday night. It was Kim Piedt, proprietor of Killara Ridge...
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Blood(hounds) on the Mara
Morani, an America bloodhound imported to Kenya's Mara Triangle, gives the camera lens a smooch after following a miles-long scent trail into the arms of a Maasai ranger masquerading as a poacher. One...
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‘A Kid’s Life is Worth More than a Peanut Butter Sandwich’
Dr. Mary Tobin with Tobi at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center. “Um, does your dog need to poop?” This, from the front desk attendant at Rush University Medical Center on the west side of...
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Service Dog Versus Service Mom
Sara, Jess and Tyson Owen (foreground) meet Tobi for the first time on April 6, 2012. As the guardian of a service dog puppy, sometimes I think I understand what it must feel like to be the parent of a...
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Piecing Together the Peanut Allergy Puzzle (Part 1)
The other day I stumbled upon “The Peanut Puzzle,” an article from The New Yorker (where I worked as a fact-checker in the 1990s) that was published last February and that somehow I had missed....
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Remembering Tracy
Tracy at the Marriott Residence Inn in Colorado Springs, May 13, 2011. I named her Tres, because she was my third Angel Service Dog, but in an ill-conceived bout of inspiration, I engraved “Tres-E” on...
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Tracy’s Forever Boy
Jennifer, Natalie, Benjamin and Joel Nichols via Skype; June 5, 2012. Tomorrow, the Nichols family will leave their home in Minnesota and drive to Colorado Springs, where they’ll check into the...
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Tracy Goes to School
Benjamin Nichols and Tracy earlier this summer in Colorado Springs. I’ll be thinking of Tracy and her boy on Tuesday morning as they begin their adventure together at school in Minnesota!
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