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One bite at a time: Fighting hunger may start with reducing meat eating
Ntombi must be so hungry - and so desperate. That's all I can think as I read the endless stream of headlines about skyrocketing food prices. Amid the talk of abstract economic factors, her memory brings home the human cost of the worldwide food shortage. I...
High gas prices are a change that can't be changed
The Serenity Prayer, written by theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, hangs on countless American walls. I grew up with it. Whatever the reader's religious belief, or lack thereof, the prayer packs a world of comfort in a few simple lines. Our presidential contenders...
This means (more) war?
President Bush is nominating Gen. David Petraeus, commanding general of the Multi-National Force in Iraq, to replace Adm. William Fallon as head of Centcom: U.S. Central Command, which oversees the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Fallon was forced to resign...
Bad vibrations for California
It was in the 90s and sunny all weekend here in Southern California. With the start of the workweek, it's cooled down a bit, to the comfortable 60s and 70s. Still sunny. No rain. And, oh, yes, there's a 99 percent chance of a major earthquake in the...
Superman: Truth, justice and a copyright whodunit
You may not know Jerome Siegel, but you know his work. In 1933, Siegel and his high school buddy Joseph Shuster created Superman. In his first incarnation, Superman was a bald-headed, Depression-era villain bent on world domination. But Siegel and Shuster...
Early morning, April four; shot rings out in Memphis sky
Words do matter. Forty years ago the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ended a rally speech in Memphis on a note that was eerily prophetic, since it would turn out to be his final speech. "Like anybody, I would like to live a long life," he said, speaking...
'So?': Why should we listen to Dick Cheney?
A pretty good case could be made for ignoring the crooked-mouthed mutterings of Vice President Dick Cheney, the lame quail hunter of the lame-duck Bush administration. A year ago, remember, he reaffirmed his rapid descent into self-parody by claiming...
Now it’s an issue: Race comes to the forefront of the 2008 elections
Seldom has a speech in a presidential nomination campaign taken on such political significance as Sen. Barack Obama's discussion of the black church in America, his relationship to it and to his beleaguered Chicago pastor. The inflammatory remarks of...
She's with stupid: Eliot Spitzer’s wife, Silda, weathers the storm of her husband’s prostitution scandal.
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. And, then again, stupid. This is now the appropriate description of Eliot Spitzer, a man who has probably never been so labeled in his 48 years. Monday's revelation of the New York governor's involvement with a prostitution...
Sarkozy pushes for Mediterranean Union
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will probably see the birth of the Mediterranean Union, his pre-election brainchild. At a meeting with Sarkozy in Hanover on March 3, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has finally agreed to the union's formation. However,...
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