It remains a fact that if you live in the United States and are poor, sick, old, not white, a sexual minority, or a refugee, there are regular, systematic threats to your health even without a one-in-1,000-year one-in-1,000-year one-in-1,000-year one-in-1,000-yearmination play out in cities and towns across the United States, while our flood is frequenThe everydaye.
But the deep sources of the tragedy were the everyday disasters that the city tolerates, takes for granted, or has officially forgotten.
The job of an IC is to regulate a chronically dysfunctional insurance marketplace, impose transparency on an industry that thrives on obfuscation, and deal with the everyday disasters of people who cannot access insurance or were shafted on insurance they thought they had.
In the wake of the storm, activists have established some street credibility by assisting with everyday disaster relief.
We appear to be creating a Gotham-specific layer of new meaning for the acronym IED: Ignorable Everyday Disaster.
By Washington standards, the current government shutdown is an everyday disaster -- of a kind we are gradually learning to expect whenever the Republican Party controls Congress.
Traditional medical training, focused on bioscience, is in Maranga's view failing to provide the human, emotional and practical skills doctors need to deal with everyday tragedy, let alone disasters such as Westgate.
Her well-researched, well-footnoted biography is a splendidly detailed account of the day-to-day work of a medical officer of health in the face of rampant typhoid, typhus, scarlet fever, and all the other everyday pathological disasters of life in Victorian times.
Sooner or later, it ensures more BP-style Gulf of Mexico environmental catastrophes, as well as the everyday cumulative disasters that, as marine biologist Carl Safina has written, simply come with oil company exploration and extraction efforts.
The word embraces unfathomable horrors and everyday mishaps; natural disasters, political atrocities and instances of plain bad luck are all commonly described as tragic.
The news gives us triumphs and disasters; everyday life, by definition, isn't news.
