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...website like francestinks.com is infantile. The U.S. doesn't have the right to force its beliefs on others and condemn a country if it doesn't go along. I spent last summer with a French family whose members weren't arrogant, snooty or anti-American. Perhaps before spreading their blind hatred, the people who are boycotting French products should do a little more homework. AMY THORSTENSON Minneapolis, Minn...
...commercial fishermen, too, venturing out to sea in thung chai, two-meter-wide circular baskets made of bamboo and pitch that can only be paddled standing up. Old superstitions linger: before a new boat makes its maiden voyage, families paint eyes on its bow. If left unpainted and hence blind, they believe, their vessel will never find fish...
...Across the road the Noori family's house is all but empty. Crowded into a small room only seven members are left of an extended clan of more than twenty. Four men were chosen to stay behind to protect the building and watch over the family's elderly blind matriarch, too ill to move. The doors and windows are covered with plastic taped to the frames. A small yellow bird, like a finch, known locally as a "taral hob" or the bird of love, is kept in a cage just outside. "When it dies we know we might too," says...
...Having this program makes Mom feel better, knowing that my husband and I are getting paid something," says Prescilia Burt, 57, a retired public relations executive in Albuquerque who takes care of her legally blind mother Terezina Valdez, 83. Burt quickly adds that "no family member does this for the money; it just provides a little bit of cushion." Her husband David, 59, a retired management consultant, also helps. They bought Valdez a house next door to them, pay for all her living expenses and spend about 80 to 100 hours a week maintaining her house, managing her medications, cooking...
...Saddam is evil, then there can be no grounds for compromise; as The Atlantic Monthly’s Jack Beatty puts it, “against evil, all means are sanctified.” Boiled down to religious truisms and moral absolutes, the rhetoric of war invites blind condemnation rather than reasoned discussion...