Chris Smith

Jul 20, 2024 | thelancet.com | Chris Smith |Keppel Street |Quiricada St

Dear Editor,The recent tragic death of a 13-year-old girl from rabies once again highlights the persistent and urgent public health challenge posed by this preventable, neglected tropical disease in the Philippines. Jamaica, a young girl from Manila, was bitten by a stray dog and, out of fear and misunderstanding, hid the incident from her parents. Two months later, on April 6, 2024, she died from encephalitic rabies, a universally fatal disease after symptom onset.

Jul 8, 2024 | edibleasheville.com | Chris Smith

One day I was driving my 5-year-old daughter home from preschool. We were in our little maroon-colored Nissan Leaf, and when Emmy looked out of the window she saw another little maroon-colored Nissan Leaf. “Look, Daddy,” she said. “It’s the same species.”It was a proud dad moment for this self-proclaimed amateur botanist. In our home garden, we often enjoy putting on our invisible botanical goggles.

Jul 2, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Todd Balf |Scottie Pippen |Michael Arkush |Chris Smith

Basketball fans will enjoy Pippen’s bird’s-eye view of some of the sport’s greatest contests. The Chicago Bulls stalwart tells all—and then some. Hall of Famer Pippen opens with a long complaint: Yes, he’s a legend, but he got short shrift in the ESPN documentary about Michael Jordan and the Bulls, The Last Dance. Given that Jordan emerges as someone not quite friend enough to qualify as a frenemy, even though teammates for many years, the maltreatment is understandable.

Jun 18, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Esther Duflo |Chris Smith

An important book that should inform conversations about equity at every level. An eye-opening look at how the wealth gap between Black Americans and the white majority grows ever wider. Reporting largely from the Atlanta area, veteran investigative journalists Story and Reed focus closely, but not solely, on Black millennials and the challenges they face in building wealth. The impediments to their success are many, and most have been deeply entrenched for decades.

Jun 4, 2024 | washingtontimes.com | Chris Smith

- - OPINION: Thirty-five years ago, the world watched as millions of Chinese gathered to peacefully demand political reform and democratic openness. The hopes and dreams of those heady days ended with needless violence—tears, bloodshed, arrest, and exile. Mothers lost sons, fathers lost daughters, and China lost an idealistic generation to the tanks that rolled down Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989.