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...competition between these two countries will serve only to enrich the profiteers and impoverish the rest of us. China pays low wages and has weak environmental standards. Its practices keep the poor poor. That isn't progress; it's modern-day slavery. Gerd Sch?nthaler Remscheid, Germany...
...China," depicting Michelangelo's David and a Chinese terracotta soldier arm wrestling, was extraordinary. My congratulations to the artist. Montano Riva Barbaran Longare, Italy The competition between these two countries will serve only to enrich the profiteers and impoverish the rest of us. China pays low wages and has weak environmental standards. Its practices keep the poor poor. That isn't progress; it's modern-day slavery. Gerd Schönthaler Remscheid, Germany Car Trouble Your article "How GM Can Fix Itself" did a fine job of enumerating the problems created by General Motors' management [Dec. 5]. But it didn...
...blathering about being misled into war matters at all. What really counts is what would happen if we left Iraq before the new government was ready to take over all the duties we now perform. Would the Middle East situation worsen or not? Would the U.S. be seen as weak and thereby become more vulnerable to attack both at home and abroad? We must see our mission through in Iraq. And I say this as a father whose son will be entering the Army in 2007 and could go to Iraq before the war is over. We are making progress...
...Katrina roared toward New Orleans, more than a million people fled the area, but 29 of the city's littlest, most sickly babies were left to ride out the storm in University Hospital. Many, born prematurely, were too weak to make the trip. Gail Gibson's job was to make sure they stayed alive--and Katrina posed an extraordinary challenge, isolating Gibson, her staff and their charges for five days. The incubators had stopped working, so the nurses had to carry the babies in their arms most of the time to keep them warm. Moved PermanentlyMoved Permanently
...confidence to dissolve the government, it's possible the first Prime Minister and Cabinet won't stay in power anywhere close to their four-year terms. That means the biggest threat to the fledgling democracy may be political gridlock. A Pentagon official monitoring Iraq acknowledges that a weak administration could invite a coup. But that risk, says the official, "may just be one of the albatrosses the system has to bear...