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However, my patriotism is not blind to the fact that many more people, some of them innocent civilians, will perish if indeed we retaliate with force. Any American who chooses to focus more on helping the people affected by this terrible event and hoping or praying for peace rather than evoking the wrath of the military on Afghanistan is still a patriotic and just citizen...
...even the more hawkish students, while urging action against whoever is responsible, hesitate to say innocent people should also have to perish...
...only the stem-cell lines that already exist? These lines will eventually be exhausted. With no legal way to gather new embryonic stem cells, the greatest hope for cures will perish. My son Roman Reed is paralyzed. Shall a Republican House and a Republican President be allowed to make it illegal for my son to be healed? DON C. REED, CHAIRMAN Californians for Cure Fremont, Calif...
...prompted some 9,000 applications ranging from the reasonable, such as one from the San Diego Zoo?electrified fences make good zoos?to the ridiculous, including those from liposuction clinics and taco stands. The Norbert Wabnig Cheese Store of Beverly Hills has applied because, says Shivon Ryan, cheeses are "perishables and require refrigeration." (And who knows how many Angelenos might perish without goat cheese?) Sick Dog's Tattoo parlor in Westminster absolutely requires power to avoid "panic poking," according to owner Frank Salderelli. (NOTEBOOK's verdict: give it to him.) An unexplained mystery is why the Orange County Council...
...crossroads. We can seize the opportunity to fight AIDS, or we can do what we did last time-let our plans fade away and avert our eyes as thousands perish day by day. President Bill Clinton, along for the ride in Nigeria, suggested that the U.S. donate a quarter of the needed money. That's the first path. The Bush administration took a hesitant step down the second path last week by announcing its first contribution to the fund: $200 million. As Oxfam has said, the administration left off a zero. If the richest country in world history...