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YOUR REPORT IMPLIED THAT CORPORATE America encourages illegal immigration, to the detriment of the nation [Sept. 20]. Unfortunately, the article was short on facts and instead relied on sensationalism, shoddy statistics and fearmongering. Immigration reform is long overdue, and a rational discussion is needed. We are a nation of immigrants, and they have and will continue to make enormous contributions to our country. Employers, like all Americans, want a rational legal immigration system...
...after decades of chronic underinvestment and the longest waiting lists for operations have been reduced. The Labour government has been loath, however, to question the basic structure of the NHS - to the detriment of British patients who can't afford private care, says Dr. Maurice Slevin, an oncologist and member of the U.K. organization Doctors for Reform. "Here patients have no power," he says. "We want to move away from a Soviet-style, monolithic, nationalized industry that provides very poor value for money." Slevin says the number of managers in the NHS has grown three times faster than medical staff...
...world, where scarcity has been replaced by overabundance and undernourishment by obesity. Increasingly, the connection between eating and ritual is becoming unhinged. We turn too much to food for solace and celebration, and we do it with less and less reference to traditions or even formal mealtimes--to the detriment of our figure and our health...
...Washington two weekends ago, it was unfortunate that the counter-protesters seemed to so minimize and essentialize their opponents. This very dehumanization is contrary to the central message of both sides of this issue, and it is a detriment to productive discourse. I hope that, in a spirit of mutual understanding and respect, we will continue fighting the fight for policies of choice that best reflect the realities and inevitable uncertainties of living as women in this country...
...President Lawrence H. Summers is considering expanding the size of the undergraduate body. This move—which would boost College enrollment by roughly a thousand—would be aimed primarily to increase the number of international students in attendance. While critics decry the loss of community and detriment to the College’s educational standards, it’s clear that expanding enrollment will only result in an increasingly diverse and vibrant population...