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Editor's Letter: The tip of an iceberg
feature Whenever a prominent pillar of the community is accused of some form of sexual misconduct, friends and admirers insist that the charges don’t square with the really fine person they know.
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Editor's Letter: Advice from the older you
feature If you were to compose a letter to your 16-year-old self, what would you say?
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Editor's Letter: Who should pay?
feature In theory, most people accept the need to make do with less. In practice, we think it would be far fairer for someone else to surrender benefits and pay higher taxes.
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Editor's Letter: Quieting the mind
feature All those thoughts in your brain can crescendo into a self-defeating chorus, and there are times when it's better to disconnect, to take your mind off your mind.
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Editor's Letter: A tsunami of PTSD cases
feature You cannot accurately calculate the cost of a decade of war.
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Editor's letter: Off to college
feature Most of us have done something stupid to fit in, and we’re never more prone to that urge than at the cusp of adulthood.
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Editor's letter: College costs galore! And jobs?
feature Around my home, we’re in full-on college mode.
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Editor's Letter: About those curveballs
feature The occasional twinge in my right elbow has always carried with it the sting of remorse.
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Editor's letter: The pull of outer space
feature A consortium of techheads announced long-range plans to use robots to prospect for precious metals on near-Earth asteroids.
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Editor's letter: America's retirement savings
feature As this week’s Briefing points out, providing for retirement savings through 401(k) plans is a disaster in the making.
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Editor's letter: Psst, Mr. Mayor
feature While Mike Bloomberg's proposed ban on supersize sugary soft drinks went too far, he has also proved that imposed change can be a good thing.
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Editor's letter: Plain speech from Congress
feature There’s plenty wrong with Congress, but simple language isn’t among its problems.
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Editor's letter: Values, votes, and ‘Obamacare’
feature With their pointed comments and loaded questions, the Supreme Court justices revealed either an instinctive approval or distaste for the health-care-reform law.
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Editor's Letter: The evolutionary drive of microbes
feature A recent story in The Atlantic lays out the chilling case that Toxoplasma gondii has infested the brains of as many as 20 percent of Americans.
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