OK, let's stop feeling sorry for ourselves, no matter how hard our lives have seemed. Just imagine having to hoe this row:
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A woman who defied medical odds and spent nearly 60 years in an iron lung after being diagnosed with polio as a child died Wednesday after a power failure shut down the machine that kept her breathing, her family said.
Good lord, am I going to have to stop making fun of France?
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday called for a cut in European oil taxes to help consumers as fishermen and truck drivers across the continent staged protests against soaring prices.
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Finally, what the world has needed -- a nice, friendly, cuddly, green bomb:
New explosives could be more powerful and safer to handle than TNT and other conventional explosives and would also be more environmentally friendly.
In logic, it's called bifurcation, the false-either/or dilemma. Here is the problem:
For nearly five decades, the United States has pursued a policy toward Cuba that could be described as incredibly stupid.
Whenever I get too pessimistic about the future, I console myself with the knowledge that I haven't gone completely around the bend:
BUSKIRK, N.Y. - A few years ago, Kathleen Breault was just another suburban grandma, driving countless hours every week, stopping for lunch at McDonald's, buying clothes at the mall, watching TV in the evenings.
How cool is it that not only did we succeed in a soft landing on Mars, but there was a camera in orbit to get an actual photo the landing?
Just what I need the day after Memorial Day -- E.J. Dionne hectoring me on "true" patriotism.
If the 2008 election is to be a debate about the true meaning of patriotism, then bring it on.
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Ah, the march of civilization:
EBENSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Members of a small Amish community in western Pennsylvania have to decide by tomorrow whether to challenge a state order over their school's outhouses.
The school sits on Andy Swartzentruber's farm 70 miles east of Pittsburgh. A state judge has ruled that he and the school are in violation of the state sewage disposal law.
Happy 150th birthday to one of the true American marvels:
Some 125 years later, the Brooklyn Bridge remains a powerful symbol of engineering might and imagination, and a revered fixture in the landscape of the nation's largest city.
You probably didn't even know there were rules for calling "Shotgun!" but there are, and people who don't know them shouldn't even be allowed ro ride with other people. Here's the most important one:
