Douglas McCormick is a former Editor-in-Chief of Pharmaceutical Technology.
Empty Cities, Outstretched Hands
January 2nd 2007Ninety million people live in California, Texas, New York, and Florida. Imagine that, sometime tonight, an unnameable catastrophe carries off everyone in those states over the age of 14. When the sun comes up tomorrow, only the children remain. Eighteen million children, left to care for one another or fend for themselves.