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07/24/2008

Solon Economou: Mexican killers threaten U.S. sovereignty
SOUTH DENNIS

Jim Balsiger: Explaining salt-water fishing survey and permit
WASHINGTON

Erik Craft: An apolitical strategy: Boost gasoline tax
RICHMOND

07/23/2008

Chris Powell: An I.D. card for Osama
MANCHESTER, Conn.

Budget a first step to solid R.I. future
WITH the hard work of passing the Rhode Island state budget behind us, it is time to step back and reflect on what we have accomplished, and where we go from here.

07/22/2008

Caroline Boin/Alec Van Gelder: Wasted foreign aid to Africa
LONDON

Gregory K. Fritz: Academic medical centers and Big Pharma
THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT problems in the relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and academic medical centers, as highlighted by Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley’s ongoing investigation and the recent accusations of impropriety involving several child psychiatrists at the Massachusetts General Hospital. To be sure, things have improved measurably in the past two to four years in response to revelations about some of the most excessive industry practices to influence physicians. Once common offers of all-expense-paid junkets with fat “consulting fees” to fancy resorts are now not so common; I haven’t received such an offer in several years. The practice of burying the results of an unfavorable drug trial, and forcing researchers to give up their rights to report their data without industry approval and editing, is harder to accomplish now that all clinical trials must be publicly registered at their outset if they are ever to be published in a reputable scientific journal. Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest is now de rigueur before most academic presentations and publications.

Anne Nolan: Homelessness is a year-round issue in R.I.
A POPULAR MISCONCEPTION is that homelessness is a bigger problem in the cold months than during the summer. While it is true that many long-term homeless (who make up only about 20 percent of the total homeless population) may use shelters less during the warm months, those people are still homeless and still using other services for the homeless — food, health care and basic needs.

Douglas J. Amy: Stop treating Americans like beggars
SOUTH HADLEY, Mass.

07/21/2008

Phillip Brewer: Devastating media message: Teens told to have babies
HAMDEN, Conn.

Worrisome signs in training our Navy
IN MY LAST COLUMN for The Journal, I maintained that rising Asian navies should be judged not only by the quality of the ships, planes and missiles they build or buy, but by the skill, élan and entrepreneurial spirit of their people. Lest you think I was picking on India or China: the U.S. Navy is not exempt from such criticism.

Jim Hightower: Speculators and our food
AUSTIN

Stanley M. Aronson: The wondrous sounds of silence
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821) abandoned the profession of medicine in 1817 to pursue a career in poetry. Given the poverty of medical knowledge at the onset of the 19th Century it is doubtful that either Keats’s name or his clinical accomplishments would have become imperishable had he remained with medicine. His poetry, on the other hand, is wondrously imaginative, moves its readers and possesses that quality of insight that compels us to think for and beyond ourselves. Consider these two unadorned lines from one of his odes:

07/20/2008

Tom Plate: An American magazine legend
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.

Mindy S. Lubber: Capturing energy efficiency in Mass.
BOSTON

Hahm Chaibong; The North Korean rights standoff
WASHINGTON

07/19/2008

Maureen Martin: Lead poisoning activists misdirect their rage
ROBERTA HAZEN AARONSON, executive director of the Rhode Island Childhood Lead Action Project, and Liz Colón, its director of training and outreach, deserve high marks for their community-education work on childhood lead poisoning. But their July 1 Commentary piece (“Don’t let paint firms wiggle away”) is a rhetorical rant that vilifies me and others who are trying to do what’s right in solving this difficult problem.

Shona Holmes: Don’t destroy American health system: Canadians need it
TORONTO

Scott Turner: Getting flashed in the forests and fields
EVERY SO OFTEN an experience leads our family to ask whether we should live in the country.

07/18/2008

Craft an immigration policy based on respect
THERE IS A VERY SMALL photograph of my paternal grandfather hanging in my study. It is only one inch both in its height and width. The picture is attached to “Certificate of Citizenship Petition #74446” which states that Jacob Gutterman, age 32, is Polish.