The Central Line: How a 20-Cent Plastic Tube Became the Veins of Global Power
From the Tube to the Troposphere: How One Skinny Plastic Straw Became the Planet’s Least-Loved Lifeline By Dave’s Locker International Correspondent LONDON—Somewhere beneath the River Thames, a beige spaghetti strand is doing the Lord’s work: ferrying antibiotics, potassium, morphine, and the occasional shot of mid-shift espresso into the bloodstream of a banker who passed out…