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...Polish. In times like these, we all need our potatoes. Americans, on the other hand, epitomize the anti-potato attitude. If not carbohydrates, we worry about carcinogenic vegetables, radioactive cell phones, and toxic seafood. Incidentally, small talk on Polish trains never gets near PCBs or farmed Alaskan salmon. Americans wonder if what’s on their plate will do them in. Poles wonder if you’d like some more potatoes. So, it seems I’m in for a potatoey summer, but should you decide to visit, you won’t find me complaining. Here...
...Makes you wonder - what are we waiting...
Twenty or 30 years ago, we sat in submissive wonder soaking up the magic of Three's Company and Who's the Boss? Today's kids see the screen as an environment to be explored, inhabited, shared and shaped. They're blogging. They're building their MySpace pages. They're constructing elaborate fan sites for their favorite artists or TV shows. They're playing immensely complicated games, like Civilization IV--one of the most popular computer games in the U.S. last fall--in which players re-create the entire course of human economic and technological history...
Jessica began to wonder, If her truck broke down, would anyone even notice her at the side of the road? There was a lot to be afraid of here. But that was what she was most afraid of, whether it was reasonable or not. She was afraid of being left behind. "I hoped that someone would see me, that someone would pick me up," she said. "But you didn't know it. You didn't know...
...interaction between patient and practitioner. By contrast, conventional medicine is often run like a production line that goes all out for speed. Communication with patients is cut back to the point where informed-consent ethics are ignored, clinical standards suffer, and misdiagnosis and mistreatment are commonplace. No wonder patients are dissatisfied and seek help elsewhere. Andrew Smith Reading, England High-Tech Referees Re "Technophobia" [June 26], your article on why high-tech solutions aren't being used to reduce referee errors in football: Football's world governing body - the Fédération Internationale de Football Association - shouldn...