This story also appeared in Columbia Journalism Investigations Mario Wilcox won’t set out in the summer without an emergency kit in his car trunk: a cooler with an ice pack and a blanket. He learned this improvised life saver from his time in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars; ice and a wet cloth can cool […]

Author Archives: Elisabeth Gawthrop
Elisabeth Gawthrop is a reporting fellow for Columbia Journalism Investigations, an investigative reporting unit at the Columbia Journalism School.