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Was Dante Narcoleptic?

September 29, 2013 By Gretchen Williams '14

was-dante-narcoleptic“According to a study published this week by Giuseppe Plazzi of the University of Bologna’s Sleep Laboratory, Dante may have been narcoleptic: a sufferer from the neurological disorder that, among other symptoms, causes people to drift off suddenly at all times of day.” [. . .]    –Sarah Bakewell, “If Dante was a narcoleptic, why should it matter?” The Guardian, September 27, 2013

See also the related discussion from LitHub, posted here.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2013, Bologna, Health, Italy, Narcolepsy, Sleep, Universities

“Smoking Ban Hits Home. Truly.”

January 26, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

smoking-ban-hits-home-truly“BELMONT, Calif. — During her 50 years of smoking, Edith Frederickson says, she has lit up in restaurants and bars, airplanes and trains, and indoors and out, all as part of a two-pack-a-day habit that she regrets not a bit. But as of two weeks ago, Ms. Frederickson can no longer smoke in the one place she loves the most: her home. . .
And that the ban should have originated in her very building — a sleepy government-subsidized retirement complex called Bonnie Brae Terrace — is even more galling. Indeed, according to city officials, a driving force behind the passage of the law was a group of retirees from the complex who lobbied the city to stop secondhand smoke from drifting into their apartments from the neighbors’ places. . .
At a local level, the debate over the law has divided the residents of the Bonnie Brae into two camps, with the likes of Ms. Frederickson, a hardy German emigre, on one side, and Ray Goodrich, a slim 84-year-old with a pulmonary disease and a lifelong allergy problem, on the other. . .
‘I came around the corner, and there was just a giant puff of black smoke, and I knew I wasn’t going to last five seconds in that,’ Mr. Goodrich said. ‘It was like Dante’s inferno up there.'” [. . .]    –Jesse McKinley, The New York Times, January 26, 2009

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2009, Health, Inferno, Journalism, Legislation, Reviews

“Where Sweatshops Are a Dream”

January 15, 2009 By Professor Arielle Saiber

where-sweatshops-are-a-dream“This is a Dante-like vision of hell. It’s a mountain of festering refuse, a half-hour hike across, emitting clouds of smoke from subterranean fires.” [in reference to a large garbage dump in Phnom Penh, Cambodia] [. . .]    –Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, January 14, 2008

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2008, Cambodia, Health, Hell, Journalism, Phnom Penh, Waste

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