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Your story about the rocky economy and tough criticism faced by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan was titled "Greenspan's Deficits" [May 2]. That's unfair and misleading. It's like calling the Indian Ocean catastrophe "Bush's tsunami." Notwithstanding some bumps along the road, Greenspan has presided over a period of great prosperity. Today's massive deficits stem from a bipartisan band of congressional spendthrifts and our purportedly conservative President. Greenspan sets banking and monetary policy. He has no control over the insatiable thirst of elected officials to spend, spend, spend...
...Before the Flood Your story "Where the Waters are Rising" described how the Maldives are affected by global warming [April 25]. The best way to save such low-lying areas from rising ocean levels is for the U.S. to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and radically cut back on greenhouse-gas emissions. Why is it that the U.S., the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has the money and technology to reduce harmful emissions but lacks the political will to do so? It would be better for the American people to start planting trees in their backyards and write...
...polio in the U.S.--the disease is on the march around the world. Since 2003 polio has been spreading in a fevered band across 16 countries mostly in western and central Africa and the Middle East. And with the news last week that the virus had leaped the Indian Ocean to Indonesia, other nations, including the U.S., have begun to worry about where the disease might turn up next...
STEVEN M. CLAYTON Ocean...
Your story "Where the Waters are Rising" described how the Maldives are affected by global warming [April 25]. The best way to save such low-lying areas from rising ocean levels is for the U.S. to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and radically cut back on greenhouse-gas emissions...