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While your story was well written and researched, it pretty much overlooked all but rich, suburban whites. What world is the writer living in? Certainly not the inner New York City one in which I teach college--the real, food-insecure world that represents the 21st century American experience for many of us. Most working parents I know are too busy trying to put food on the table to have time for "overparenting...
Philip K. Howard, NEW YORK CITY...
...Spotlight on the new mammogram guidelines [Nov. 30]: Let me see if I have this straight. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force felt that the cost of women experiencing "risks" like anxiety outweighed the benefits of mammogram screening for women under age 50? Despite the fact that yearly screening for this age group "unquestionably" reduced the risk of dying 15%? I am 41, and let me be the first to tell Dr. Diana Petitti--who found the public backlash "surprising"--that I find it more anxiety-provoking to know that my risk of dying from breast cancer...
...New York Times reported yesterday that Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch is also planning to introduce an equally stringent amendment to the Senate bill...
Moments later HUPD entered and closed the doors to the bank, not allowing the few customers who had just trickled in to leave, and not admitting new customers. While the police took down names, the bank continued to complete transactions...