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Robert Reich03.08.2026

When I get together with certain old friends, our first ritual is an “organ recital” — How’s your back? Knee? Heart? Hip? Shoulder? Eyesight? Hearing? Prostate? Digestion? Hemorrhoids? The recital can run — and ruin — an entire lunch. My Epilepsy I don’t normally write about what ails me because I can’t imagine anything more […]

Pavel Chirkov19.03.2026

I was born a year after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Since my birthplace wasn’t very far from the site of the horrific accident, I think it had an impact on me and my family, but I didn’t begin to think about that until much later. Three months before I was due, my mother had an […]

Robert Reich15.10.2025

What I tell parents of abnormally short children. I’m very short. At my zenith I was 4 feet, 11 inches. From time to time, worried parents of abnormally short children phone or email me seeking reassurance. I tell them that if they or their children are desperate, they can resort to limb-lengthening surgeries, growth hormone […]

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