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Editor's Letter: India's urban slums
feature A great deal of fanfare was made over the two child stars of Slumdog Millionaire when the shantytowns in which they lived were razed. What will become of their less famous neighbors?
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Editor's Letter: Rationing health care
feature Health-care rationing sounds cold and heartless, except when you consider that the only real alternative to rationing is unlimited medical treatment—including a refusal to “lose” the battle with death even when de
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Editor's Letter: California and New York at the edge
feature In California and New York, the public interest has been sacrificed to petty, entrenched partisanship.
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Editor's Letter: The end of voice mail?
feature People under 30 are four times more likely to respond within minutes to a text message than to a voice message.
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Editor's Letter: End Times for the shopping mall?
feature In my suburban area there are a half-dozen small, medium, and large malls, and these meccas of consumption are now often eerily quiet.
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Editor's Letter: O, be some other name!
feature Hog farmers and pork producers would like us to call the swine flu “the North American flu.” And it is not only the pork industry that is suffering from irresponsible naming conventions.
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Editor's Letter: Developing psychic antibodies
feature A lifetime of exposure to the flu has given older adults partial immunity to the swine flu, in much the same way that a lifetime of hard experience now shelters them from the more psychic pathogens of life. Not so with the young.
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Editor's Letter: The swine flu and stress tests
feature It cuts against my journalistic grain to say this, but sometimes there is such a thing as too much information.
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Editor's Letter: Rewarding bad behavior
feature The definitive account of the Danish cartoons; Clinton and Kim Jong Il; Killing grandma with death panels
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Editor's Letter: A modest proposal
feature For ending the nation's bitter bickering over health care, abortion, affirmative action, religion in the public square, taxation, torture, and the proper role of government
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Editor's Letter: Beer as a socal signifier
feature Tell me what kind of beer a man drinks, and I’ll tell you who he is.
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Editor's Letter: The rise of the robot
feature Japanese researchers have unveiled robots that can hit and pitch a baseball with remarkable acumen. And in Menlo Park, a group of experts in artificial intelligence met recently to discuss the need for setting some guidelines.
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Editor's Letter: The health-care debate
feature Knowledge, politics, and health-care legislation
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Editor's Letter: Basketball then and now
feature I should probably mention here—nonchalantly—that I once played ball on the actual White House court. The rim-and-backboard was a rusted, net-less shambles, slumped atop a listing aluminum pole.
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