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...Thanks to TV, the internet and video games, it's no wonder that we have lost even the most basic instinct for staying fit. Exercise should be a daily activity at the top of everyone's list of things to do. It gives a feeling of well-being that cannot be matched by any of our more stationary daily activities. Exercise should not be a chore. It should be a personal requirement that everyone feels happy to fulfill. Leon Rafailov New York...
...tries to compete with China. Politicians in India are constantly asserting their resolve to put Bombay on a par with Shanghai, without even giving a thought to reality. The fact that a day's rainfall can paralyze the economic hub of India speaks volumes about the complete lack of basic infrastructure and disaster-management techniques in this country. The government machinery was totally overwhelmed by the floods and started providing relief only after the hapless residents resorted to massive street protests. Now we find the bureaucrats playing a blame game. Have these officials given a thought to improving the city...
...G.O.P. National Committee chairman, Ken Mehlman, recently admitted. This implicit racism evolved into a tacit unwillingness to rethink problems of poverty and race-an unwillingness shared by Democrats, who clung to old bureaucratic solutions and cosmetic remedies like affirmative action-and worse, to the denigration of a basic governmental role: the need to plan for the future, to anticipate crises. The new philosophy of governance was stated most crudely in 1987 by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "There is no such thing as society ... There are individual men and women, and there are families...
...best to provide that book in Bogle on Mutual Funds. I'd say, if you're really a basic investor, Bill Schultheis's The Coffeehouse Investor. And if you're more sophisticated, I'd certainly do Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street...
...informative and timely as your report on influential Hispanics was, it highlighted a lack of basic knowledge common among most Americans. You referred to Jennifer Lopez as the daughter of "Puerto Rican immigrants." Since when are Puerto Ricans--U.S. citizens by birth--immigrants? And the people who responded to your poll identified Puerto Rico as a "country" of ancestry when in fact the island is a commonwealth and part...