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Opinion

One handed cupboards

Editorials and columns

How long does it take you to set your table for meals? Do you reach into your cupboards and pull out what you need without moving a lot of other dishes? I’d like to explain an easy “one handed” method to make this job as simple as possible. Do you have two or three different types of ...

Celebrity roasts are about as funny as smallpox

Editorials and columns

There was a time when celebrity roasts were built on the tiniest shred of wit, driven not by a desire to be as offensive as possible but to poke fun at uncomfortable truths packaged in genuine humor and delivered with enough intelligence to make even the roastee laugh. But today's generation of ...

The hantavirus cruise: a ship of fools

Editorials and columns

On April 1, 114 guests and 61 crew members, unaware of the presence of a killer virus among them, boarded the MV Hondius. That ship has earned the moniker "Ship of Fools." Because of the top brass's reckless disregard of infection control principles, the ship's passengers and thousands of ...

What regrets and remote controls have in common

Editorials and columns

If you have ever regretted saying something and wished you could take the words back, you are not alone. It is tough knowing how to respond during an emotionally charged conflict. You may be able to change future conflicts, but it will take some exercise. No need to get out your bike or get on ...

Family planning in an age of anxiety

Editorials and columns

"Why so few babies?" asked a New York Times essay that sounded oddly familiar to me. In my college days, it seemed that everybody was talking about "The Population Bomb," the 1968 best-seller in which Stanford biologist Paul R.Ehrlich predicted worldwide famines and other dire consequences ...