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Your article was very comprehensive but failed to mention the biggest problem plaguing the U.S.: our two-tiered health-care system. Although those fortunate enough to have employer-provided health insurance or rich enough to buy it for themselves may benefit from new drugs and technology, there are still 46 million Americans who do not have even basic health insurance. Moreover, it is precisely the new drugs and technology that are driving up the cost of health care, and a lot of that money is going into the pockets of drug-company shareholders. New tools do not necessarily translate into...
...corrective of sorts, showing that the range is wide and imposing. You can still savor the romantic desperation of sex, lies, and videotape, the working-class wit of Clerks, the community of self-aware losers in American Splendor, the devious plot pranks in The Usual Suspects, not to mention the creepy docu-glimpses of family life in Capturing the Friedmans and the creative disarray in American Movie. It makes for the best possible Sundance fest, and you won't get snubbed or snowed...
...Library has them. Lamont Library has them. House common bathrooms don’t. We realize this is an unfair comparison. But after wiping the seat down with the Purel by the card-swiper’s desk for the umpteenth time, we figured it might deserve a prominent mention. If we can’t—how shall we say—mate los microorganismos, we might as well put a thin sheet of wax paper between them and us.Though our chimneys were blocked as of fall 2003, that still shouldn’t keep Santa from delivering...
...wages, and in its absence of strong cultural measures of class. None of this has been perfect or flawless, but compared to many other countries, Australia has measured up well. If myths about perfect egalitarianism should be discarded, so should myths about rampant racism—not to mention kangaroos and shrimps on the barbie...
...committed atrocities, ordered them to take place, or refrained from stopping them. At the museum next door, memorabilia from kamikaze pilots, the Burma death railway and other examples of Japan's wartime history are displayed in unequivocally celebratory style. An exhibit on the "Nanking Incident" of 1937 does not mention the tens of thousands (and perhaps hundreds of thousands) of Chinese citizens the Japanese military slaughtered there in 1937 and 1938. Instead, it says, "The Chinese were soundly defeated, suffering heavy casualties. Inside the city, residents were once again able to live their lives in peace." As a euphemism...