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...your story on fuel-efficient hybrid cars, which are propelled by gas engines and electric motors [May 24]: While my Honda Civic hybrid is eco-friendly, that was a secondary concern for me. Every stop at the gas pump now feels like an al-Qaeda fund raiser, but with my hybrid, I'm using only my fair share of U.S. gas production. I'm not lining Osama bin Laden's pockets anymore. MATTHEW MCINTOSH Gretna...
...past few weeks, other deplorable events have come to light which have troubled the civic and religious conscience of all." POPE JOHN PAUL II, meeting with President Bush, in an apparent reference to allegations of prisoner abuse in Iraq...
...examining the ways in which undocumented immigrants are already living lives that have features we associate with citizenship—involvement in civic activities, political participation through activism and (clearly) economic integration—Hernandez is showing how merely legal understandings of citizenship are out of step with people’s lived reality,” Christopher Sturr, a lecturer in social studies who advised Hernandez’s thesis, wrote in an e-mail...
...Saturn SL is the car most likely to be stolen, according to a survey released last week by insurance-industry tracker CCC Information Services. Coming in at No. 2 is the 1998 Acura Integra, while the 1994 Saturn SL ranks third. Others in the top 20: Mitsubishi Montero, Honda Civic and Accord, Acura Legend, Toyota Camry and Chevrolet Tahoe. The most commonly filched cars were all made in the 1990s. Why? Ed Sparkman of the National Insurance Crime Bureau thinks newer autos are less attractive to thieves since carmakers now include better antitheft devices. Consumers looking for postfactory theft prevention...
...Clinton era that men who spent their careers undermining human rights, international order and social justice made their names in Congress by positioning themselves as defenders of a morality defined exclusively by sexual conduct. These cannot be the boundaries of morality. There is such a thing as civic, public morality, and it belongs in the vocabulary of any serious politician because there can be no more serious motivation for public service. Because it is characterized by real compassion and strength, public morality includes acknowledging the humanity and rights of homosexuals, though peddlers of hate invoke it to do the opposite...