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...Class Should Not Be Dismissed In his essay on affirmative action, Michael Kinsley argues that class distinction is a social problem we "currently don't have much of" [Aug. 25]. What about so-called legacy college admissions, preferential scholarships, cronyism and hiring practices that often involve far fewer than six degrees of nepotistic separation? I would suggest consulting those at the bottom of the ladder before consigning the problem to the dustbin. Lane R. Garland, Winder...
Aren't we making a lot of progress? Absolutely. In a lot of places. When you adjust for age (since cancer is over-represented in the elderly), fewer people are getting cancer, and those who get it are surviving longer. We are benefiting from improved surgical techniques as well as more refined chemotherapies and radiation strategies that use lasers and robots to target cancer cells. Cracking the genomic code is leading to new drugs, geared to individual dna, that disrupt the very mechanism of cancer. "The rate of discovery has been phenomenal," says Dr. Harold Varmus, CEO of Memorial Sloan...
...else. There are plenty of other cities that would welcome the jobs and tax revenue, but the process of shifting workers, equipment and suppliers could take 12 to 16 months, Majeed says. He expects that the first Nanos will be sold this year as promised, but there may be fewer of them. With just two plants, the company may be able to produce only 30,000 to 60,000 Nanos instead of the 200,000 vehicles it had hoped to sell to grab at least 5% of the two-wheeler market. A Tata Motors spokesman said it was too early...
...Granted, China put on a fabulous show. Volunteers were unfailingly polite, constantly showering foreigners with a chirpy "Beijing warmly welcomes you." Events kept to a strict time schedule and positive drug tests were far fewer than in previous Games. The stadiums, from the latticed Bird's Nest to the ethereal Water Cube, stunned audiences with their architectural bravado. And the sheer athletic drama was, as it always is during any Olympics, astonishing...
...know the decision remains tiny - probably just his top campaign aides Steve Schmidt and Rick Davis, and presumably his wife Cindy. "This is very tightly held," says an adviser who has been boxed out of Veep discussions. "McCain doesn't like to be forced into a decision. The fewer people banging on him with advice on something like this, the better, as far as he's concerned...