Barefoot Epidemiologist
  How an amateur could, in two weeks, do a good estimation of the size of a city's drug-abusing population.
  Beggar's Brass Bowl
  A proposal to register beggars and encourage them to be "street concierges" in exchange for alms and other generosity.
  The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
  My personal choices for the two most hopeful, and the two most troubling, potential directions for the AIDS epidemic in the 2000-2010 decade.
  Big HIV Spread Among Young Gays
  Back-calculation from AIDS surveillance data suggests that lots of young gay men are getting infected.
  Blood on Their Hands: The Judgment of History
  Reflections on the only punishment ever likely to be meted out to ruling-class policymakers whose decisions cost thousands of lives or billions of dollars.
  Boar's Head Carol
  A homoerotic extra verse for the traditional Oxford Christmas carol.
  Boredom: A Safe, Legal Way to Achieve Altered States of Consciousness
  My revenge for all the tedious meetings I've had to endure in my academic and professional life.
  A Brief History of the After Sobriety Movement
  Speculation upon a world where "sobriety" is a valuable commodity on the free market, exchangeable for "life therapy" vouchers.
  The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Sugar
  An imaginary press release in 2013, when America's three big legal drugs finally become taxed in proportion to the damages they do.
   

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