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...Bronx every other month," Reynoso says. "Just taking the train from here--it's like I never see day-light until I get there. Going to the South Bronx is like being in two different worlds in the span of four or five hours. I have to shift my whole mentality, my whole existence. It's not just economic, but social and ethnic as well. I come here and I have to become another person."GraphicsRachel E. Kramer...
...right to die is a personal matter that rests with an individual. Technology has long been playing a godlike role in finding ways to extend our human life-span. It has wiped out many diseases that brought early mortality to generations past. Nothing is without a cost, and in this case payment is exacted in lives with more "quantity" but not necessarily better "quality." Reverence for life must find balance with human compassion to ensure the dignity that each of us should be allowed in dying. MELISSA QUADE Paw Paw, Michigan Via E-mail
...MUSIC . . . TO THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED: "One rarely watches a Congressional filibuster on C-Span and thinks -->
...obvious question, "Since some, although not all, scholars believe Matthew may have been written around A.D. 80, what real difference does a marginally earlier date make?" In antiquity, some 20 to 25 years was not marginal; that was the working life-span of a whole generation. And with a date prior to A.D. 70, when the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple occurred, we gain new insights into the historical Jesus, who prophesied both events. Records from eyewitnesses remain fundamental, and they are a challenge to scholars as much as to skeptics and believers. CARSTEN PETER THIEDE Paderborn, Germany...
...totalitarian iron hand manipulating the whole nation at will; on the other side, you have an open capitalist regime, a successful free market economy and a democratic system guaranteeing people's rights and involvement in politics. Above all, shall we remember, this gap has been created in a mere span of 40 years, even less than one generation's lifetime! And yet, the dark shadow of a second Korean War, a disaster which could possibly wipe out the gap by just destroying everything, is always hanging over the peninsula like the sword of Damocles...