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The Lost Art of the Handshake

The Washington Post published an amusing and somewhat sad story about the imminent passing of the "cornerstone of civilized behavior" -- the handshake. Hard to imagine what was once a cordial icebreaker has been transformed to a unneccessary conduit for disease, particularly the flu. The piece jumps from flu numbers -- inaccurate citations from the CDC claiming far more people died from the flu than actually did -- to excerpts from news stories about elected officials, celebrities and...