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Editor's Letter: Getting utilities to see the light
feature Our power went out at 2 a.m. during the first night of Irene’s window-rattling fury. A large maple tree had crashed into the overhead power lines.
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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: 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: 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 backlash against bike lanes
feature Will my humble stab at civility help silence the anti-cyclist haters? It seems more likely that on New York’s streets, as in Washington, conflict will remain the natural order of things.
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Editor's Letter: When the frame of reference shifts
feature The successes of football coach Joe Paterno and political leader Silvio Berlusconi now seem like failures in light of their neglect of more important obligations.
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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: Steve Jobs’s last words
feature Mona Simpson had no idea what Jobs was seeing when he uttered his last words, but she invites us to ponder their meaning in the context of his life.
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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: 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: A vision of 2100
feature The only prediction about the future we can count on is this: When it comes banging on the door, we will be surprised.
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Editor's Letter: Retirement reconsidered
feature Most of us grew up believing that our work lives would end at age 65, and most of us are now adjusting that expectation.
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Editor's Letter: Patience and perseverence
feature As Einstein himself put it, “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
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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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