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...deplorable. Manipulating the human genome is a runaway train gathering speed by the minute, but instead of jumping on and inviting global debate, the best Bush could do was to straddle two tracks, hoping Ol' Engine No. 2004 would pick him up. KATHRYN H. HOLLEN Leesburg...
...John Ohmer knew the parents in his congregation wanted help weaning themselves from the habit of overindulging their children. But as a father of three who has to ration Nintendo in his own home, Ohmer, rector of St. James Episcopal Church in Leesburg, Va., also knew it wasn't as simple as just telling families to buy less. So he revved up what he calls an "underground Christian resistance movement" for parents, offering parish workshops that urged them to make an inventory of their lives and holidays and then imagine the ideal version. Their dreams, it turned out, entailed...
DIED. ROBERT AURAND MOON, 83, former postal inspector who was one of the inventors of the ZIP code; in Leesburg, Fla. Moon began working for the post office in the 1940s in Philadelphia and Chicago, where his idea was born for what became the Zoning Improvement Plan...
...surely produce a system in which each vote is counted quickly and correctly. We should explore a uniform national system in which each state uses the same voting technology. We should be able to produce a system that will accurately reflect the wishes of every voter. GERARD J. GAGNON Leesburg...
...traffic problem in their own inimitable way. Local developers are planning a web of six or seven helicopter ports around the region to cut commuting time in the three-county area as well as to make fast connections to airports. Meanwhile, the Cessna sales office at once sleepy Leesburg Municipal Airport in Loudoun County has become one of the best-performing sales points in the nation. Last year Mark Peters nearly doubled his quota and sold 40 planes. "There are a lot of prosperous so-called geeks out there who want to fly," says Peters. "The Dulles Toll Road should...