The stories illustrate four separate aspects of Donald McNeil’s beat:
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How the U.S. AIDS epidemic has become more and more concentrated in gay black and Hispanic men in their teens and 20s.
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An Argentine auto mechanic who invented a simple, safe device to help mothers in obstructed labor give birth.
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A little-known tradition at Stanford in which thousands of students get together at midnight under the first full moon and kiss — a custom that raises health considerations the university takes seriously.
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Pakistan’s battle against polio in the wake of the murders of numerous vaccinators by the Taliban.