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...return to church, I see the Latin Mass as an acceptable solution: With your back to the congregation and speaking in a dead language, you would find it difficult to tell me how to vote. Allow me to experience the joy of communion without the anguish of our modern-day differences. Bring back the Latin, and bring back an embattled believer...
Urban planning experts say America's older cities are modern-day Pompeiis - within range of volcanoes of infrastructure failures like New York's. On Wednesday, a pipe, laid in 1924, exploded near Grand Central station, killing one person and injuring 30. Maintaining a sewer system is hardly a sexy political issue, but years of funding neglect and a subsequent lack of maintenance nationwide have left many of the country's engineering systems unprepared to handle future stresses. "We have an aging infrastructure in this country, and we are not doing enough to maintain it and replace it," said Sarah Catz...
...writers who conceived it, was that signing up with the insurer online was so easy "even a caveman" could do it. "It was just a dumb way of saying that our website is really easy," Lawson says. So he and his collaborators added a twist: a group of modern-day cavemen protesting the stereotyping of the ad-within-an-ad while the agency tries to make amends...
...Gore is a cross between Jeremiah and Noah. As a modern-day Jeremiah, he is exhorting mankind to stop abusing planet Earth or face the consequences. As Noah, he aspires to save humanity from the impending great flood. Unlike Noah, though, he has not been empowered to build an ark. But as President, he would have the power to implement effective measures to avert the disaster to come. Gore should regard the U.S. presidency not as a temptation but as a sacred mission to save mankind. Sammy Somekh, Ramat-Gan, Israel...
...Harvest of Woe I must congratulate you for offering a balanced report on farmer suicides in Vidarbha [May 28]. It brings into sharp focus the perils of modern-day living for those whose incomes are still negligible, and spells out clearly the efforts being made by the government to avert the agrarian crisis. [However], unlike what the article implies, the disbursal of credit is not an issue of great concern. In the past year, government efforts have doubled credit availability in the six affected districts of Vidarbha while minimizing unauthorized, predatory moneylending in the area. Moreover, the article gives...