Weighing Health Risks
by Michael Specter
KAKULU, Uganda — This village is really just a muddy patch of ground in the tall trees near where the Nile flows out of Lake Victoria. The men work on coffee plantations. The women bear children, fetch water from the well about a mile away and cultivate cassava, potatoes and bananas. Read more »
Michael Specter has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998.