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...cobbled together from the ruins of the freight railroads' dying passenger business in 1971, Amtrak has chugged through $23 billion in federal funds and been plagued by an entrenched bureaucracy, pork-barrel politics, high labor costs and stagnant ridership--all the things, in short, you might expect from a state-run monopoly...
...Allstate, the second largest underwriter of homeowner policies in the U.S., stopped offering such coverage a couple years ago. Industry leader State Farm Group is eliminating the coverage state by state. Third-ranked Farmer's Insurance has stopped the coverage as well. Of the 15 largest underwriters, only Chubb continues to offer guaranteed replacement value, says the Insurance Information Institute. And even Chubb has stopped offering it in harsh-weather zones...
...disturbing that you had to resort to a picture of a dead child to show the sad state of child protection and foster care in the U.S. But the unfortunate reality in Canada, as in the U.S., is that the child-protection system is in crisis. The problems are complex, the safeguards almost nonexistent, and, despite a number of dedicated individuals, children continue to die in horrifying circumstances. What will it take to stop the tragic death of youngsters who were brutally tortured and murdered by their so-called caregivers? I applaud the social workers who are trying to make...
...there is fierce fighting again between Israelis and Palestinians [WORLD, Nov. 13]. Why should anybody be surprised? It has been going on for as long as Islam, Judaism and Christianity have been around. And it will continue while Israel exists as a Jewish state and controls holy sites of two other major faiths. Arabs, both Christian and Muslim, will rebel to get back these sites. What ever happened to the lesson of sharing? JAMIL BATCHA, Age 16 Hunt Valley...
...fellow astronomers Wendy Freedman, Robert Kirshner and Geoff Marcy and I were delighted with your exciting article about the renaissance in ground-based astronomy and optical systems [ASTRONOMY, Nov. 13]. The explosion of new telescopes and other state-of-the-art tools is providing astronomers with unprecedented opportunities. What should also be emphasized is the way ground- and space-based telescopes work together. Far from being just a finder telescope for the Keck, as the piece suggested, the amazing Hubble Space Telescope--arguably the most productive astronomical instrument ever--has been a wellspring for investigations with ground-based telescopes. Indeed...