A telegenic personality who connected easily with journalists, Gerberding quickly became the public face of the CDC—a rare cool head among a parade of increasingly confused health bureaucrats.

Shedloads of flights from Amsterdam in the air at this time of day, ditto Charles de Gaulle, Heathrow, Berlin, Gdansk, Tenerife, Sofia.

[…] conveyancing of property to a background of ships loading or discharging and the clanging of wharf cranes, but in August, when the tide was low, the River Lyle's gum-like, perspiring mud banks released a mephitis […]

But there is another whole world out there, the black middle class, people who are making ends meet, who are sending their children to college. Two professionals in the household. Providing. And you don’t have to hide behind a tree (looking for them) and say, ‘There goes one, there goes one.’ They come in neighborhoodsful.