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Editor's Letter: The mathematics of real life
feature Two brave mathematicians have stepped forward to argue that students with no aptitude for higher math should track to courses that provide “quantitative literacy.”
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Editor's Letter: Of hearth and home
feature In spite of all the turmoil during the last few years, Americans continue to think that buying a home is “an important part of the American dream.”
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Editor's Letter: A panoramic view of humanity
feature I’ve never tired of the God-like view of man’s works one gets from a plane window. From on high, we human beings seem so numerous, and so…busy.
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Editor's Letter: Privatizing Medicaire
feature Rationing is back in a new guise. Rep. Paul Ryan’s proposal to privatize Medicare would impose limits on how much care seniors would get.
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Editor's Letter: America's misery index
feature Maybe a study like the Gallup-Healthways study is what it takes to remind people like me that we may have lost touch, that there is another story worth hearing if we will stop to listen.
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Editor's Letter: Microbial ecosystems
feature I was recently reminded of the might of microorganisms when I got food poisoning from a sausage-borne pathogen on a slice of pizza.
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Editor's Letter: The reverberations of 9/11
feature Like Stalin and Mao and Hitler before him, Osama bin Laden was a one-man pivot point in history.
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Editor's Letter: Our bargain with the nuclear devil
feature It would be lovely if we could shut all 104 nuclear plants in this country, and the coal- and oil-burning plants, too, and live off solar and wind power.
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Editor's Letter: Fate's nonchalance
feature Every now and then we are reminded of the role random chance plays in our lives.
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Editor's Letter: The power of small words
feature Architects misquoted Martin Luther King Jr. on his own monument. Last week, the U.S. government order the quote changed.
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Editor's Letter: America's black hole
feature After funding for the Superconducting Supercollider in Texas collapsed, some of the nation's particle physicists went to Wall Street to design financial derivatives.
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Editor's letter: The poor health of baby boomers
feature It turns out that while we baby boomers will likely live longer than our parents, we are apt to eke out our final years in more advanced states of decrepitude.
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Editor's letter: Legalizing marijuana
feature Both Colorado and Washington have legalized marijuana. Will President Obama challenge them?
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Editor's letter: Surprises from our oldest ally
feature Those who had the French pegged as libertine “surrender monkeys” might need a stiff cognac to help them digest the recent news.
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