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...Lewis and Clark, the pioneering flights of the Wright brothers--were made by people because such achievements required human beings and human intelligence. But today space exploration can be done much better and more cheaply without using human pilots. We need not risk any more shuttle crews. MICHAEL WAGGONER Boulder, Colo...
Phillipa Kafka certainly wasn't. Kafka, 70, a former professor of English literature at Kean University in Union, N.J., and her husband Oliver Kenen, 56, a former high school physics teacher, moved to Boulder City, Nev., after retirement. There they turned a long-standing passion for design, decoration and fixing up old homes into a business by starting Boulder City Upgraders. Since 2000, the two have renovated and sold one house and have begun work on three others in Nevada and California. After expenses, the business brings in from $50,000 to $75,000 a year, according to Kafka...
...early fascination with Beethoven drew him to the piano by the age of seven when he studied piano with Julia Bees in Boulder, Colorado. He gave his first solo recital at the young...
Whole Foods, along with its chief rival, Wild Oats Markets, based in Boulder, Colo., is riding a surge of interest in so-called natural and organic foods. While such foods account for just 3% of Americans' grocery bills, they attract higher-income buyers and yield fatter profits for grocers and producers. And a parade of food scares--mad-cow disease, hormones and antibiotics in meat and milk, pesticides in produce, genetically altered "Frankenfoods"--is propelling more shoppers to go organic. Result: sales of natural and organic foods are growing at an 18% annual clip and are projected to surpass...
...friend of mine explained it by saying he would eat only things he thought he could kill himself. He figures he can kill a fish but not a cow. That seems like a more honest and consistent rationale than some of the others I've heard. ROD STEPHENS Boulder, Colo...