Michael Boitano, 40, allegedly traded Snapchat messages with his then-16-year-old student in October and used the social media platform to send her a picture of his privates.

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A commentary on the legacy of Oliver Sacks in light of the shocking revelation that many of the cases he wrote of were in the famed neurologist’s own words “half-imagined, half-science, half-fable.” ...