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...flying or reincarnation - as shrilly as any Red Guard, and declare that Christians ought to be deprived of the vote. But I'm also capable, at the evening's conclusion, of telling my hosts that their Arne Jacobsen chairs are blocking the chi in their green-dragon corner. The fact that I'm half-Chinese always seemed to make this O.K. Sure, feng shui was nonsense, but it wasn't the same sort of nonsense as transubstantiation or homeopathy. It was a superior Chinese nonsense, a righteous part of my fashionably ethnic, intangible heritage...
...These days, though, I am cured of such intellectual malady. In fact, I am able to accuse feng shui's practitioners of contemptible quackery. Let me explain how I have arrived at this incontestable position. (See 10 things to do in Hong Kong...
...Breast Cancer Re the Spotlight on the new mammogram guidelines [Nov. 30]: Let me see if I have this straight. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force felt that the cost of women experiencing "risks" like anxiety outweighed the benefits of mammogram screening for women under age 50? Despite the fact that yearly screening for this age group "unquestionably" reduced the risk of dying 15%? I am 41, and let me be the first to tell Dr. Diana Petitti - who found the public backlash "surprising" - that I find it more anxiety-provoking to know that my risk of dying from breast...
There are certainly other factors at play here besides just a tough job market - more stay-at-home dads, more rich loafers, more prison inmates. But it also may be a sign that these are in fact the worst times for American workers since the 1930s. Which helps explain why there was so little excitement about that drop in the unemployment rate...
...there is one question about the process that people are likely to be debating for years: Did the road to passage really have to be this rocky? The shape of the legislation - and specifically, the fact that there were never going to be 60 votes in the Senate for a government-run public option - has been clear for months. So why did Reid insist upon taking the public option to the Senate floor as part of the initial bill he introduced, making the fight even messier and at times seriously jeopardizing Dems' chances of passing such a landmark bill...