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...doesn't pay to eat too far up on the food chain. Meat needn't be what is for dinner. Factory farming is barbaric and cruel. Every person who reduces the use of animals in his or her life is performing a lifesaving act. LAURIE ULRICH Huntingdon Valley, Pa...
After listening to vegetarians who argue for sparing the lives of animals, I have to ask, Why is eating a live oyster a greater crime than eating a live broccoli stalk plucked from the garden bed? JOHN LASKAS SR. Media, Pa...
...from and where I was going. I did not feel as though I was being interrogated, as much as I felt I was being engaged in a friendly conversation. Seeing the folks at DIA smiling and thanking passengers has restored my faith in flying. REBECCA HALL Pittsburgh, Pa...
DIED. CHAIM POTOK, 73, best-selling author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev, whose crystalline prose gave mainstream audiences a nuanced glimpse into the rarely seen world of religious Jews; of brain cancer; in Merion, Pa. Potok's novels repeatedly addressed the struggle between religious devotion and love for the secular world, a tension he experienced as the son of Orthodox Polish immigrants who deemed his work frivolous. Inspired by the writing of Evelyn Waugh and James Joyce, whom he read on the sly as a teenager, Potok, unlike religious skeptics Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, lovingly...
...Palestinian Authority, Hamas attacks sabotage any hope of a reviving the negotiation process on which its future ultimately depends. The U.S., the Europeans and most Arab states have made clear to the PA that curbing terror is the condition for any progress on the political front. But the PA isn't strong enough politically to simply decree that attacks must end, and PA officials have in recent weeks been locked in intense negotiations with leaders of groups undertaking terror attacks in the hope of persuading them to accept a unilateral cease-fire. It's been a tough sell...