“The fundamental problem is you can’t trust anybody here,” said one medical ethicist. “Not the US State Department and not the Cuban government.” A Supreme Court case may soon create a constitutional ...

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This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a bird market in the Mediterranean tourist town of Marsa Matruh, Egypt, I was inspecting cages crowded with wild ...