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...Ponnuru states that former President Carter "eked out a paper-thin victory only because of Watergate, stagflation and defeat in Vietnam" [June 9]. That's like saying we won World War II only because we had a superior military, we were a united country and right was on our side! Phil Kenny, Colorado Springs
...kind of business deal that doesn't give a joint win [to both parties] is ludicrous. I can't think of any one-sided deals that have been really good for us. Try to figure out when you really have vested interests aligned. And don't try to seize the moment where you've got a little too much. Knowing what you know on your side, would you sign up on the end of this deal? Don't go there if they're agreeing to it but you wouldn't. A deal that is relatively as balanced as possible will...
...National Survey of Children's Health. The poorest states of the South and Appalachia--Arkansas, West Virginia, Mississippi and Kentucky--have the heaviest children. Adult obesity levels triple when you cross north of 96th Street in Manhattan, leaving the mostly white and well-off Upper East Side for the predominantly minority, poorer neighborhood of Spanish Harlem. Even in trim Colorado, there are obesity hot zones...
Mexican Rice 190 calories 600 mg of sodium 0 g of fat FACT: Although this starchy side dish doesn't contain fat, it's loaded with sodium. Rice can be tasty without all the salt...
...surviving disaster was both informative and important [June 9]. But her recounting of the fatal fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club, which I covered as a correspondent for ABC News, omitted two key lessons. One: when someone yells "Fire!" (or anything equally alarming), people must err on the side of caution. And two: exit doors must open outward! Most of the corpses at the Beverly Hills were lumped up against the exits. The people who reached the doors first couldn't open them because they opened inward, and when more people pressed up behind them, the doors couldn...