Childhood Encounter with Polio and its Harrowing Consequences

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Exploring a man's poignant experience of being diagnosed with polio in the 1950s, the chapter details his mother's heartbreaking realization, his hospitalization in an iron lung, and the impact of the disease on his childhood.

After more than 100 days in office, President Javier Milei has managed some much-needed economic reforms. But the hit to voters’ pockets may limit his popularity, and progress. Sprucing up a peripheral Paris neighbourhood for the Olympics is just part of a plan to transform the city’s geography (9:42). And the astonishing life of the longest-ever user of an iron lung (17:20).

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