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...your own DNA going up? You know, strangely, one person we forgot to include was me. Of course, my DNA will physically be there; my skin cells will be on it. So you won't need to send my digital sequence...
...Bryan Walsh's claims about the organic-food movement in "Can Slow Food Feed the World" [Sept. 15]. First, ?organic farming yields less per acre than industrial farming" only if it is done by industrial-style methods. John Jeavons' Bountiful Gardens project proves that all the food a person needs-and all the natural fertilizer needed to grow that food-can be produced on one-sixteenth of an acre if biointensive organic methods are used. Second, if all Americans ate organic food we would not need 40 million full-time farmers, as Walsh claims, but probably 30 million gardeners...
...attract the best and the brightest young people who want to make a difference. It should provide free college and postgraduate education, offer majors in both domestic and foreign public service, require strong prerequisite credentials like those demanded by the military academies and be apolitical and headed by a person of great prestige who is neither a politician nor a military officer. What better way for taxpayers to spend their money than on training talented future leaders? Frank R. Nataro, HUNTINGTON...
...Whatever choices you make, just make sure to respect yourselves and the other person (or people) involved. Oh, and one more thing: wear a condom...
This mix of emotions, the intricate tightrope walk between comedy and tragedy--Ayckbourn's greatest feat, really--may be why his work has got short shrift in America. Early in his career, after such West End (and occasional Broadway) successes as Absurd Person Singular, Ayckbourn was labeled, patronizingly, the "British Neil Simon." But as his plays have grown darker and more complex, Broadway has largely abandoned him. Although Communicating Doors, one of his lesser comedies, had a successful run off-Broadway a couple of seasons back and Comic Potential, his latest West End hit, will be produced this fall...