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...Have these people no understanding of the negative effects of having so many children? Our planet is choking to death because it's overburdened by people. One Western child uses 30 times the resources a child born in a Third World country does. If wealthy people are going to have larger families, they should be taxed accordingly. Jo Nol, West Simsbury, Conn...
Have these people no understanding of the negative effects of having so many children? Our planet is choking to death because it's overburdened by people, especially in the developed world. One Western child uses 30 times the resources a child born in a Third World country does. If wealthy people are going to have larger families, they should be taxed according to how much they burden the overall system. Instead, we now give credits for having children. If you love children and want a big family, adopt someone already here...
...Rebecca Hutchinson, 54, from Deerfield, New Hampshire, after attending a house party for Obama in August. Hutchinson, who works on the Democratic staff of the New Hampshire House Minority Leader - a Clinton supporter -spent third and fourth grades in Pakistan, and she sees Obama as the only candidate who can undo the damage done by the Bush Administration to America's reputation in the world. "Life experience is a really important factor for me. And the fact that he's lived abroad and the fact that he has family in different arenas gives him perspective and will help him makes...
...began to set on what would have been an ordinary day at the beginning of the third millennium, the light shone through the window to strike two ordinary young scholars. They were hungry. But they were also privy to a different hunger. Watching how the light passed unrefracted through the simple dining hall window, they yearned for the aesthetic elevation that only a stained glass window could provide. But then again, they also wanted to eat.How, then, could they satisfy these both the most base and most cerebral of yearnings? They thought long and hard. Finally, an electronic courier proclaimed...
...Europe itself is not a big arms customer. The real hunger lies in oil-rich and third-world countries eager to modernize their armies. Unlike the 1980s, when France nurtured military ties with African governments - selling massive arms systems in return for political backing - France has few natural allies to whom to sell weapons. Two months ago Morocco - France's former colony and close neighbor - rejected the Rafale and instead bought Lockheed Martin's F-16 fighter jet, which has seen years of combat, including in Afghanistan and Iraq. "Even the French Air Force hasn't bought all the Rafale...