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...sonnet, there's a uniformity to the open letters to Lucas. First, there's the issue of whether to address the director as "Mr. Lucas" or "George." Writers who choose informality seem more likely to harbor the delusion that Lucas will actually read their letters. Then the writer must begin by describing the first time he saw Star Wars ("I was the first kid on my block to see it," "I saw it in utero," etc.). Often the writer's origin story segues into a tragedy of childhood abuse, in which his mint collection of figurines and plastic light sabers...
Food for Thought I am astonished that Jeffrey Sachs [May 5] thinks the problem of world food shortage can be solved by simply growing more food. With the world population expected to reach 9 billion by mid-century, which will stress every resource on Earth, we need to begin discussing some of the taboos around curbing population growth. John Noble, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
With the split results from the Oregon and Kentucky primaries Tuesday night, the Democratic Party will now begin to bring its nominating race to a quick close in ways that are at once both completely familiar - and utterly unprecedented...
...hope still glimmered at the power plant. Rescuers say the odds of finding survivors are highest during the first "golden 72 hours" after an earthquake. After that, the chances for those still pinned under rubble begin to decline precipitously, because of lack of food and water. Yet shortly after midnight, rescuers pulled the man trapped in the collapsed building, the state-run Xinhua News Service reported. He was identified as Ma Yuanjiang, an executive with the power company. It had been 178 hours - almost seven and a half days - since the quake decimated Yingxiu...
...already emerging. Iraqi forces came in much greater numbers than Mahdi Army leaders expected, al-Freiji said, leaving the militia wary of the Iraqi army's next move. A key test of whether the truce will hold is likely to happen in the coming days as Iraqi forces begin to move from the streets into buildings around Sadr City to search for the militia's heavy weapons. It remains unclear just how willing the Mahdi Army is to give up its arsenal of rockets and mortars. And animosities linger between Iraqi troops and militiamen. The fighting between the two sides...