Graduate student Matthew Verosloff, hangs by one arm off a dirt ledge as he leans his body over the edge of a river. His free arm is reaching down with a test tube to collect a sample of water. He’s in Costa Rica escaping the frigid cold of winter in Chicago. It’s sunny, it’s warm, and he’s supposed to be on vacation, but his lab work has somehow followed him the 2,000-mile distance.
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