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...driving my kid home from college. We were on I-95 and it was late in the day. The sun is coming through the car window and it's on her and I'm looking at this beautiful child whom I just adore and I thought, "I have to let her go now." That's gut-wrenching, but it's really an important realization and I think parenthood ends up being little periods of letting go. But the big letting go - that question necessarily involves [asking], "Do I own my child?" And that's Ellen Gleeson's quandary...
...Krista Mahr's article on rich states renting agricultural land in developing states presents a thorny question: Can the hungry be a provider to the well-fed? Let's take the case of the Philippines, my homeland. Most Filipino farmers are poor and neglected. The Department of Agrarian Reform can't even protect their rights against greedy hacienda owners. Without sufficient safeguards, food-security agreements might only aggravate the lot of farmers and their families from Sudan to Indonesia. Remember: the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Dennard Dacumos, Manila...
Passover began at sundown on Wednesday. It commemorates the Exodus from Egypt over 3000 years ago, when the Jewish people escaped but didn't have time to let their bread rise. Thursday night's seder at the White House reportedly featured a reading of the Haggadah and traditional Jewish goodies like kugel and a roasted...
...quick to point out, sober people too). For years, countless 20-somethings across the country, after a night of carousing, have suddenly craved a Grand Slam - pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, the works - to soak up the alcoholic suds in their stomachs. It's 3 a.m., the bars are closed ... let's go to Denny's. (Not that I, for one, know any of this from personal experience.) "When all of us were 18 to 24, we'd give up a lot of things when we didn't have money, but partying wasn't one of them," says Marchioli. "When...
...coordinated attack; the dense clouds blanketing the valley provided the perfect cover for the insurgents. A new command came over the radio: "If you see anyone standing outside of a building, consider it hostile intent and fire at will." "As soon as I can see a building I'll let you know," retorted the gunner. A vicious exchange of gunfire echoed from below the post, silenced only by roar of mortars hitting the insurgent's suspected firing positions. Then all was still. The thin, wavering sound of the call to prayer lifted from the village below. Still, the soldiers could...