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Aging in Place Emma Dickison
Category: Life in America Published: July 2012
The vast majority of senior citizens prefer to age in the comfort of their homes as opposed to an assisted care facility or nursing home.
 
An Accident Waiting to Happen Dan Hannan
Category: Life in America Published: July 2012
There is no place like home--as long as it is safe.
 
Blasphemy's Assault on Free Speech Paul Marshall
Category: The World Today Published: July 2012
America's Founders, who had broken with an old order that was rife with religious persecution and warfare, forbade laws impeding free exercise of religion, abridging freedom of speech, or infringing freedom of the press. We today must do likewise.
 
Can Obama Be Beaten? James W. Thomson
Category: Political Landscape Published: July 2012
If Bill Clinton were to update his sly slogan for the 2012 election, it would sound something like, "It's the race card this time, stupid."
 
Four Bucks a Gallon--Ouch! John P. Strelecky
Category: Economics Published: July 2012
This is an issue that can be gotten under control and, for the sake of the economy, must be gotten under control.
 
Getting It Fair and Square Bill Bachrach
Category: Business & Finance Published: July 2012
Is the flat fee for financial advice about to go mainstream?
 
Just Try Stealing First Base Cynthia Drew , Joan Golden
Category: Literary Scene Published: July 2012
Games can be taken away by bad plays, bad breaks, and bad calls. Losing is going to happen, but being better doesn't just mean being a better baseball player.
 
Just What Do You Mean by That? Dolores T. Puterbaugh
Category: American Thought Published: July 2012
In the alphabet soup of misrepresentation, three "a" words easily come to mind: absolution, access, and automatic
 
Learning to Face Forward Michele Howe Clark
Category: Psychology Published: July 2012
If you want to know what your thoughts were yesterday, look at your body today. If you want to know what you future will be, look to your thoughts today.
 
No Hands No Feet No Limits Christine Belleris
Category: Athletic Arena Published: July 2012
At recess, the nuns would ask, "He has no feet; so how can he run so fast?" So fast, in fact, that Tony Volpentest has been nominated for induction in the Olympic Hall of Fame.
 
On the Defensive Murray Weidenbaum
Category: National Affairs Published: July 2012
The challenge facing planners in the second decade of the 21st century is how, at a time of severe budgetary pressures, does the nation maintain the defense industry's innovative, managerial, and technological strength so vital to national security?
 
One Mother's Message to God Mary Lou Quinlan
Category: Religion Published: July 2012
She inhaled a worry. She exhaled a prayer. If it was important to me, it was important to Mom and, if it was important to Mom, into the God box it went.
 
Refusing to be Preempted George F. Will
Category: Worldview Published: July 2012
If we Americans cultivate our inner lives and our moral selves as industriously and productively as we cultivate the material world around us, then perhaps we of all peoples can long endure.
 
Seeking the Elusive Credibility Factor James Kouzes , Barry Posner
Category: The Workplace Published: July 2012
People run down. Energy runs out. Talent gets stale. Organizations get stuck. Challenges continue and threats mount, and the old ways of doing things do not work anymore.
 
Should Mormons Be Feared Because of their Beliefs? Tricia Erickson
Category: Religion Published: July 2012
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has secretive oaths, covenants, and pledges to death penalties as part of its Temple rituals.
 
The FDA Condemns You to Death Jonathan W. Emord
Category: Medicine & Health Published: July 2012
The war on cancer has become a war dominated by friendly fire, where the medical troops fighting the battle more often than not kill the civilian patients they are supposed to protect.
 
The Government, not Underregulated Markets, Spurred the Economic Meltdown Patric H. Hendershott , Kevin Villani
Category: The Great Recession Published: July 2012
Market discipline cannot be said to have failed during the subprime lending bubble, because it did not exist; market forces had been replaced by regulatory oversight.
 
The President "Bams" the Economy on Oil Richard L. Gordon
Category: Public Policy Published: July 2012
The very policy initiatives that the Obama Administration wishes to expand have failed in the past. Mandates and subsidies to produce renewable energy have been central to legislation for 40 years, as have attempts to impose fuel efficiency on the market.
 
Tour de Trees: Caring for Nature One (Bicycle) Mile at a Time M. Janet Bornancin
Category: Ecology Published: July 2012
If you are breathing, thank a tree==and remember that healthy trees are rooted in research.
 
What Insane Asylums Taught Us Paul Patterson
Category: Medical Research Published: July 2012
Some of today's more adventurous clinical investigations are . . . Providing intriguing results on the effects of fever on autism, and even proposing vaccination for schizophrenia and severe depression.
 
When Reality Bites Back
Category: Focus on Society Published: July 2012
For the committed, creative collector, photography is a vanguard medium that provices myriad possibilities to understand our lives through the power of images.