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Jon Franklin was a pioneer in the "New Journalism" move-ment. He is best known for his dramatic short stories that read like fiction but are absolute fact. He received the first pulitzer prize ever given in the category of feature writing and also the first ever awarded for explanatory journalism. He is a professor and at University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. His latest book, The Wolf in the Parlor, will be released this fall. |
Canticles for the Common Man What is the psychological distance between, say, humans and lemurs? Too great, or so scientists believe, for us to dare wonder how they think. To do that would be to anthropomorphize – to ascribe human thoughts and emotions to animals – and in science, anthropomorphizing is a cardinal sin. Still, a sin wouldn’t be a sin if it didn’t feel so right . . . |
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The monster had lived inside Mrs. Kelly’s head for decades, its tentacles reaching deep into the brain toward what neurosurgeon Tom Ducker called “the pilot light.” As it grew, her life diminished. Today would set her free, one way or the other. . . Mrs. Kelly’s Monster |
You’ve heard of SARs, bird flu and ebola. But what disease does public health officials fear most? It rarely appears in the news, but you could ask Nurse Ho . . .
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Jon Franklin
jonfrank@chesapeake.net
