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...just because 100 miles (160 km) has been used as an arbitrary procurement distance doesn't mean that people who try to eat locally walk around the supermarket with a GPS unit. I still enjoy bananas and coffee, and I have no problem drinking beer that comes from???gasp!?California. The point of eating locally is to become more familiar with our food. It's nice to hear a farmer say that my rib-eye steak came from a cow that ate local pasture grass rather than a corn-and-antibiotic slurry. Ben Kraft, ANN ARBOR, MICH...
...very much enjoyed and learned from??your cover story on News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch [July 9]. He has transcended the temptation to use his acquisitions to promote his personal ideology. Instead, he appears to have sought a balance by creating a powerful and profitable media dialogue that feeds on its own contrary products...
...farm boy from??the state of Uttar Pradesh in northeast India who grew up to be Prime Minister. Chandra Shekhar was known by both supporters and detractors as a political firebrand, an idealistic, secular nationalist who could be blunt to a fault. Indira Gandhi jailed him, along with many other of her outspoken political opponents, during a tumultuous period in the mid-1970s. Shekhar became Prime Minister in 1990, but holding only a slim majority in a fractious coalition, he served just seven months before resigning amid charges that his government was spying on political rival Rajiv Gandhi. Shekhar died...
Kids can get violent images from??movies, TV, DVDs, the Internet. Yet the latest outrage over the feeding of gore to the very young came from one of the oldest forms of commercial communication: the billboard. Ads with grisly graphics from such fright films as Captivity and Dead Silence loomed over children as they went to their Los Angeles--area schools. And if the images didn't scare the young, they upset many parents--and detonated the latest installment in an old debate: Are scary things bad for kids...
...should stay away from??antisocial friends like Noorzai. Why would he want to help the U.S.? I am very disappointed by your decision to put him on the cover of a magazine I respect for decent journalism...