A dozen years ago my wife and I took a trip to Patagonia, in southern Chile. We took a zodiac boat on Lago Grey where our hosts chipped ice off an iceberg, put it in a blender, mixed in other ingredients and served us the best pisco sour I’ve ever tasted. But they also told us how far the glacier had receded in the few years they’d worked there.
It is extraordinary that a virus first detected in China could be responsible for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of athletes across the United States not getting to play sports last spring.
It took a little longer but the World War II Memorial will be unveiled at a dedication ceremony next week with a number of surviving veterans expected to be in attendance.