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Thank you for objectively examining the seriousness of China's spying on the U.S. [THE COX REPORT, June 7]. While there is no doubt that China has sought to appropriate classified defense technology from the U.S., the Cox report sounds dangerously overwrought. The very notion that 80,000 Chinese nationals visit the U.S. every year to glean whatever military information they can reeks of xenophobia. Shame on the Republicans for using U.S.-Chinese relations for petty domestic political purposes. It will merely lend credence to hard-liners in China, who for reasons of their own would like a more adversarial...
Unless the U.S. is planning to confront the People's Liberation Army in the mountains of Manchuria, China is decades from posing a military threat. The Cox report exposes one thing: we continue to have significant security lapses at the highest levels of our military. ERIC J. SMITH Pontiac, Mich...
...picture painted by the Cox report is no less ridiculous than the Chinese government's insistence that NATO's bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was the result of a conspiracy. Let's hope cooler heads prevail and Sino-American relations improve in the long run, to the benefit of all of us. HONG MA Port Jefferson Station...
MOMMY TRACK New moms seem to be enjoying a bit more time in the hospital for recovery after giving birth. A government report--the first since the public outcry over "drive-by deliveries"--finds that the average hospital stay for a vaginal delivery has inched up about half a day, from 1.7 days in 1995 to 2.1 today. That's still something of a bum's rush compared with 1980, when the average time in the hospital was 3.2 days...
BRAIN STRAIN Feel like you can't think straight when you're stressed out? You're probably right. Researchers who injected volunteers with cortisol--a hormone secreted during stress--report that those who received the highest doses for the longest period (four days) had the most trouble recalling a story they had just been told. There is a bright spot: a week after the hormone injections stopped, memory was completely restored...