OZY Daily Dose

It’s somewhat hard today to appreciate just what an accomplishment the 145-page treatise A Book of Medical Discourses in Two Parts represents. Even the title of the 1883 work is misleadingly modest. One of the first American medical guides to offer advice for women and children, the book deals with treating everything from infant bowel complaints to hemorrhoids and diphtheria.

It was a classic "oh no, we're out of the one thing we need to have a successful dinner" moment. My in-laws were over, and we were 10 minutes away from sitting down to eat. I drove to the grocery store on a peaceful late-summer London, Ontario, day. As I was about to turn into the grocery store parking lot I heard barking. From out of nowhere, two massive, yellow-spotted dogs darted in front of my car as they ran across the street.I pulled over and parked, got out and surveyed the situation.

No sooner has your order been taken than waiters bring baskets of hot, fresh flatbread, salad and little plates of tzatziki. First-timers fill up on these delicious complementary sides, which is a big mistake: The main courses are huge. On Harringay Green Lanes, the trick is not to order starters, but it's easy to give in to temptation. At first glance, this seems like an unassuming stretch of north London street.

I used to work at the New York Jazz Museum, just yards from the old Studio 54. The museum is long gone, but it had put the teenage me in a place not only to refine a pre-existing interest in jazz but also to learn how to navigate celebrity. Essentially, don't be a pain in the ass, and make yourself useful. Good life lessons that have withstood the test of time.So while meeting a dozen or so members of jazz royalty had prepared me a lot, it hadn't prepared me in 1999 when one of my writers called me.

Img 20190126 084005 Zion National Park in Utah.Perhaps the scariest hike in America, Angels Landing in Zion National Park in southern Utah is 2.5 miles and 1,500 feet of rising, fear-inducing elevation, even for the most experienced hikers. The last half-mile is particularly notorious, with sharp drop-offs, narrow paths and steel chains that visitors cling to for dear life - after all, at least 15 people have reportedly died from these heights.

Our double-prop ATR 72 made its descent into Puerto Asís airport, a dot on the map about one hour east from our destination. Out the window, Monica pointed at the deforestation. Farmers had burned out polygon patches in the earth, eliminating the cedars and oaks that once stood there. The patches were hardly 10 kilometers from the airport."Before, when I used to take this flight, I looked out the window and all I saw was green forever," said Monica.

Margaret Van Vliet had long known who Donald Trump was. She had seen him at a few well-to-do New York City parties, and often when she was visiting the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan for business. But it wasn’t until they crossed paths at a private Atlanta hangar that they spoke for the first time. Trump was going up a set of stairs: Van Vliet was going down them. As they passed each other, Van Vliet could feel Trump’s eyes scan her body.

What do you get when you cross freestyle skiing with paragliding? Answer: the craziest, fastest, most extreme mountain sport adrenaline junkies can dream up.Speed riding is a high-speed, high-intensity and high-stakes (and, up until recently, mostly unregulated) mountain sport that allows for superfast speeds - we're talking up to 90 miles per hour - and access to terrain that would otherwise be off-limits to regular skiers or paragliders.

The crush was deep and abiding. Forget the 3,000 miles between us. Forget that she had slept with a friend of mine because my interest had remained unvoiced and I had a girlfriend at the time. Forget everything that would have made this pairing almost impossible to seriously consider. I was having dreams about her, for Chrissakes, so to say that Ingrid was on my mind was an understatement. So I wrote her and laid it all out. In pre-Internet days this is how it worked.

Because racial equity in football is just as fickle as the trends on the field. In what has become a yearly ritual, eight NFL coaches met the unemployment line the day after the end of the NFL regular season. But this year, Black Monday hit too close to home. Five of the eight head coaches out of work were Black, leaving only three minority coaches at the start of 2019.