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...response, Summers said the maxim’s true meaning is that property rights propel third-world development. He argued that peasants who have their own plot of land will use sustainable farming methods and not deplete the soil...
...ready reserve troops, not an invading and occupying military force spreading U.S. aggression abroad. If confidence is to be restored in the U.S. military, our forces must be used for the defense of this country, not for the personal goals of the President. U.S. troops belong on U.S. soil, not stationed in 135 different countries. There is no justification for U.S. soldiers serving in other countries, unless our military is part of a U.N.-sponsored peacekeeping mission. Ted Johnson Colrain, Massachusetts...
...ready reserve troops, not an invading and occupying military force spreading U.S. aggression abroad. If confidence is to be restored in the U.S. military, our forces must be used for the defense of this country, not for the personal goals of the President. U.S. troops belong on U.S. soil, not stationed in 135 different countries. There is no justification for U.S. soldiers serving in other countries, unless our military is part of a U.N.-sponsored peacekeeping mission. Ted Johnson Colrain, Massachusetts, U.S. Where Was God? You omitted a profound side effect: the doubt that the tsunami [Jan. 10] has raised...
...years ago, as have many authors since. But few have tackled the Oedipal tale with as much wit, verve and retail success as Japan's Haruki Murakami has in Kafka on the Shore. The book sold 550,000 copies in its first month on his home soil in 2002, inspiring a sequel comprised of selections from the 8,870 e-mail critiques Murakami received and his 1,220 replies. Kafka has become a best seller in Germany, South Korea and China, and now the English-language version has become a U.K. best seller. The novel, Murakami's 10th...
...that Easter Island was at one time home to the largest species of palm tree in the world. It seems the Easter Islanders overtaxed their tiny home's unusually fragile ecosystem. Once they chopped down all the palms, they couldn't make canoes to go fishing in, and soil erosion devastated any attempts at agriculture. "The further consequences," Diamond observes dispassionately, "start with starvation, a population crash, and a descent into cannibalism." You can imagine where they end. Diamond interprets the Easter Island statues as increasingly desperate pleas for help from powerful ancestors...