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...that the U.S. creates. Stay the course? That was our motto in Vietnam. Daniel T. Arcieri Blue Point, New York Who Owns the Next Century? Jeremy Rifkin's book the European Dream [Oct. 18] argues that the next century belongs to enlightened Europeans, not money-obsessed, hyperviolent Americans. I wonder whether it has occurred to Rifkin that America's economy and society are very vibrant not because Americans are materialists but because their culture encourages innovation and doesn't stigmatize failure to the degree that European society does. The gross domestic product is a lousy way to measure an economy...
...William Adams’ column, “Twenty-three is the Ugliest Number” (Nov. 10). In this column, the author’s mother is said to have been “injected with prostaglandin hormones to induce pregnancy.” To induce pregnancy, you wonder? That’s what I wondered as well...
...however, is now similar to a political bureaucracy that pulls out all the stops to perpetuate itself. The clergy has become a ruling class that arbitrarily makes decrees significantly affecting people's lives. Church leaders rule with fear as well as love. Small children are indoctrinated mercilessly. So I wonder whether, in the fundamentalist denominations, religious belief is caused by the God gene or just good old-fashioned coercion...
...wonder when they will discover a gene for believing in Santa Claus...
...gang was arrested for the crime. That touched off a violent anti-Muslim backlash, which has forced some Dutch citizens to question the limits of free speech, others to ask whether the country's age-old reputation for tolerance is a thing of the past, and still others to wonder whether their grand experiment in integration has ignited an all-out clash of civilizations. "We have allowed a climate to develop in which everything is tolerated," says Geert Wilders, a right-wing member of parliament who has received death threats from radical Muslims. "There is way too much political correctness...