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...Fresh air. The air inside the prison is what you expect to find on a commercial jet: sticky, stuffy, and hard to breathe. It's constantly re-circulating. I seriously missed not being able to put on this CD or that CD and hear what I wanted to. And of course, the lack of any females in the environment was also not too great...
...There are clearly good reasons for this; medicine as a whole is getting better and we expect higher levels of knowledge in our docs. I certainly wouldn't want anyone but a neurosurgeon dissecting a tumor out of my brain, or anyone but smart oncologist coming up with the drug cocktail that might save my life from a cancer. It's usually not that hard, though. The great bulk of patient visits are for really simple things - questions that a reasonably bright resident would get right. Most pneumonias, for example, are pretty easy to treat; the internist should have...
...reason I support teaching English, keyboarding and the U.S. Constitution: each is useful knowledge for informed citizens in a democracy. My only caution: teach all of the Bible. We wouldn't sample bits and pieces of Macbeth, Jane Eyre, 1984 or Catch-22 in a literature class; we would expect students to read an entire work. Just so with the Bible. My enthusiasm for this proposal is not entirely selfless. I subscribe to the position espoused by the great Isaac Asimov: "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived...
...behest of their rich employers, operating without any oversight or rules of engagement. These gun-toting cowboys charging around in their SUVs taint the already sullied image of our military and government. They went into battle for two reasons: blood and money. Those who live by the sword should expect to perish by it. It is foolish for their families to expect that they are going to be safe. When even journalists and humanitarian relief workers are targets of violence in Iraq, why should these armed men be exempt? Their deaths highlight the ineptitude of the government that...
Most of the time Charles Krauthammercomes across as an odious right-wing bully, but in "Limousine Liberal Hypocrisy" [March 26] he did well in demolishing sanctimonious grandstanding on the environment. What do Western leaders expect nearly 1 billion Chinese and Indian farmers to do--burn one less cow-dung cake to play their part in saving the world? The problem lies in the consumption patterns of the West, not those of ordinary Chinese or Indians. A meaningful dialogue on the environment can happen only when the per capita greenhouse-gas emissions of the West and the developing world equalize...