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...believe that rather than merely offering drugs to our troops, we can give them the counseling they need via teleconferencing and even remote video conversations. The phone and Internet are terrific inventions. Let's put them to better use to support those who protect us all, at great personal cost. Carolyn Reyno, Springfield...
Games People Play While it may be interesting that China is working hard to present itself as a benevolent power on the world stage, why do we ignore the cost of its goals [June 30]? When did it become acceptable for a 14-year-old girl to be taken from her home and forced to become a weight lifter? When did we start to treat such actions as nothing more than growing pains? America didn't become the world's athletic powerhouse by placing athletes in servitude. It didn't search rural Alabama for Jesse Owens, take him from...
...found the source of the largest produce-linked salmonella outbreak in the nation's history, and officials now say it's possible that tomatoes aren't even the culprit. So far, 869 people across 36 states have become sick. According to the National Restaurant Association, reduced tomato consumption has cost the food industry at least $100 million...
...This "bottom-up, personal responsibility" message, as he describes it, appeals to Kmiec, allowing him to be not just a McCain skeptic but also an Obama supporter. That decision has not come without a cost - this spring Kmiec was denied Communion by a priest who denounced his endorsement of Obama. But with Catholics almost twice as likely to name the economy, Iraq and terrorism as their top concerns over abortion and gay marriage, Kmiec has plenty of company. Come November, that priest may be holding on to a very full bowl of wafers...
...Bank note denominations now run to 75 billion Zimbabwean dollars. A pint of milk, if it can be found at all, can now cost 3 billion dollars, or about 30 U.S. cents...