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...year working within the system to bring change. Wrong choice. Special interests gutted the reform out of the health care, banking and climate-and-energy bills, showing that congressional Democrats are as susceptible to the influence of money as Republicans. The President now understands. After the Massachusetts election, he went over the heads of the system to ask for help in getting action on banking reform. Now it's us vs. Wall Street in a fight to win over our Representatives...
Amen to Michael Pollan on the affordability of good food, in "10 Questions" [Feb. 1]. When my husband and I went low fat, high fiber and organic, our food bill doubled. By shopping at local farmers' markets we reduced the cost somewhat, but if we had children to feed, we could not afford...
...alert system at our warehouse went off; within an hour we were mobilizing for Haiti. Our warehouse is like a Walmart for disasters. We tailor the box contents to each crisis. A summer flood in Sudan requires more mosquito nets than a winter earthquake in Nepal. Haiti is tropical, so we put in fewer blankets and added extra water-purification tablets...
Nearly a decade after an Air France Concorde crashed in Paris, killing 113 people, Continental Airlines and five individuals went on trial on Feb. 2 for manslaughter for their alleged roles in the episode. A French inquiry found that a titanium strip left on the runway by a departing Continental plane pierced one of the Concorde's tires and the rubber debris punctured a fuel tank, causing the aircraft to catch fire. Continental's lawyers say they can prove that the Air France flight caught fire beforehand. The trial is expected to last four months; if found guilty, the individual...
Superficial buyers, I discovered, are young, hard-core pop-culture geeks who still don't realize that being a star is different from being a celebrity. Anyone who has been to high school knows that talent and popularity are unrelated, especially if they went to my high school and read my work in the literary magazine Reflections. (See the top 10 albums...