Forty years ago is not ancient history in the medical field. However, being an eye witness to the emergence of three new infectious diseases in the northeastern United States in the 1970s left a deep impression on this author. I will relate a small portion of the amazing events that caught the attention of the medical establishment and the general public in a roughly 5-year period of medical di...

Several respected experts recently declared victory in the deregulation of telecommunications, favorably comparing changes in the industry to the 1970s, when Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter eliminated regulations on transportation and oil and gas industries. Compared to that wave of deregulation, however, declaring victory in telecommunications is premature. Regulatory reform in communications has...