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Catharina Coenen

Catharina Coenen  is a professor of biology and biochemistry at Allegheny College.

Stuttgart station after the war

Changing Trains

In Stuttgart, in 1943, my mother escaped bombs falling on the station. Has her terror expressed itself in me?

by Catharina Coenen | Monday, December 02, 2019

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

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Plunging to Earth

by Robert Zaretsky

Still dreaming up ways to safely enjoy this year’s summer vacation? “Safe” may be a relative term here—but if you’re feeling brave, you could take up skydiving, as Robert Zaretsky once did. “As I fell,” he wrote in our Summer 2011 issue, “I blurted out—like so many others have, I later learned—‘Mommy!’”

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