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Editor's Letter: The “Aarrggghhh!” element and global warming
feature The 2009 hurricane season officially ended this week, and in case you hadn’t noticed (good news is no news), not a single hurricane-level storm touched down in the U.S. Not one.
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Editor's Letter: Our shrinking brains
feature As if life weren’t complicated enough, now we have to get our heads around this: The human brain has been shrinking.
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Editor's Letter: Bailouts and a level playing field
feature It’s actually quite fitting that the Yankees are, at this miserable juncture in history, once again baseball’s champions.
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Editor's Letter: What will happen to the "green" sensibility now that the price of gas has gone down?
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Editor's Letter: The new N-word
feature Why do officials bristle at the suggestion that they are moving toward bank "nationalization"?
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Editor's Letter: Merry Christmas, my friends, and happy Hanukkah
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Editor's Letter: It seemed like a good idea at the time
feature Dear Reader: Okay, okay, we should not have sacrificed the Music Page for the Puzzle Page.
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Editor's Letter: Their disaster can be our disaster, too
feature It’s not every day you can pull up a chair and wait for a natural disaster to show up. But that’s what Hawaiians did last week, as they studied the horizon, searching for a tsunami racing 6,600 miles across the Pacific Ocean.
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Editor's Letter: Dear friends
feature While some in Washington use weasel words to shirk responsibility, I’ve always made a habit of honest talk—which is how I’ll address your question about federal spending. If by "spending" you mean...
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Editor's Letter: New Yorkers pull a NIMBY
feature Until recently, many New Yorkers were relishing the opportunity to bring 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants to justice near the scene of their monstrous crime.
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Editor's letter: The myth of social mobility
feature Americans believe that “moving on up” is more likely to happen here in the land of opportunity than anywhere on earth.
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Editor's letter: Sandy's chaos
feature I’m reasonably eager to come to work every Monday morning, but this is the first time I’ve walked up five flights of stairs in the dark and kicked in a door to get to my desk.
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Editor's letter: Turning away from football
feature The suicide of Junior Seau has once again raised the issue of the brain damage suffered by professional football players.
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Editor's letter: The nice guy defense
feature If Rajat Gupta and Lance Armstrong thought their good works would exempt their sins from scrutiny, they were mistaken.
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