The Dirty Subway

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Urine, garbage, rats and influenza. Can the New York City subway affect your health?

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← Older: At the Cloisters, a pagan teaching moment

Twelve necks crane and 24 eyes squint to see the faded wall painting in the shadows, set deep in the apse of Fuentidueña Chapel. Mary the Virgin and a Baby Jesus dominate the scene in the center, flanked by the winged Michael and Gabriel on each side. Beside them stand the Three Magi, bearing gifts.

“This is the typical use of pagan iconography in Christian themes,” Nahson said.

Newer: Reconstructing Ireland at home →

Paul Pigman remembers running his hand along the emerald blades of grass that covered the sweeping limestone ridges of his ancestor’s land and feeling the tip of each drag against his palm.