This child wasn’t left behind

Made it to Tokyo without difficulty, though I ended up going to bed at 7:30pm Tokyo time (6:30am in New York) and waking up at around 4am (3pm EST). I went to the opening reception, chatted a bit with a couple of people, and then popped into a Lawson’s (one of three or four 7-Eleven [...]

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Off to Japan

Off to Japan to give my lousy paper presentation at Keio University. I know, I shouldn’t be so hard on myself. A friend and former colleague reassured me that I have the ability to make bull-shit sound profound, so I take (cold) comfort in that, at least. While I’m lugging my laptop there, and will [...]

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What can we learn from Japan?

I’ve been given the task of writing a short paper on the topic: What can the U.S. learn from Japan, with respect to education? This task was given to me on somewhat short notice and is due soon, and under such circumstances and constraints, I find it helpful to blog out my thoughts. Perhaps that’s [...]

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Withdraw and Replace

An article in today’s New York Times about a massive drug recall by the Roche Pharmaceuticals of Switzerland, provides yet another sorry example of the perversities of the global HIV pharmaceutical sub-system. The drug, a protease inhibitor called Viracept, was quietly recalled because a possible contaminant in certain shipments of the drug. How many shipments [...]

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Riding the Q Train

Coming home to my apartment in Park Slope, I thought: gee, I appropriated the name of one of Brooklyn’s main streets as the title for my blog. Instead of blabbing on about sociology, my travails in grad school, my mounting irritation with my HIV education class - shouldn’t I try to write about Brooklyn, or [...]

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