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Editorial: Katrina, Five Years Later

New Orleans is rebounding well from the devastation wrought by the hurricane and could end up on a stronger economic footing ? if the city redevelops in the right way.

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Editorial: When Warriors Hurt Themselves

A task force has rightly laid out a mandate for Congress and the Pentagon to address the alarming rise in suicides afflicting the military.

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Editorial: The Real Say on Pay

Corporate lawyers say that disclosing the ratio between executives? pay and that of typical employees would be too difficult. The real difficulty would be justifying large pay gaps.

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Editorial: On Course for a Cleaner Hudson

The cleanup of the Hudson River by the General Electric Company turned out to be full of unexpected problems. This does not mean the project should be abandoned.

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Letters: A Time for Reflection on Two Wars

Readers respond to articles about the war in Iraq and in Afghanistan.

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Letters: Before the Talk of Peace, Terror in the West Bank

Readers respond to an article about the killing of four Israeli settlers on the eve of the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

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Letter: Medical-Tube Errors: A View From the Industry

A reader responds to an article about patient deaths because of medical-tube errors.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Sarah?s Amazing Race

As the worlds of Alaska and reality TV collide, maybe the next new program should be entitled ?Shooting With the Stars.?

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Op-Ed Columnist: Cleaning the Henhouse

The salmonella outbreak underscores that this industrial model of farms as meat and egg factories can be a health hazard.

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Op-Ed Contributor: A Dream House After All

The residential market took a hit, but owning a home still makes sense.

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Rooms Worth Keeping

What draws museum visitors to carefully preserved period rooms?

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My Summer Home

Who needs a country house, with 530 million acres of public land that belong to all of us, year-round.

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O Urban Pioneers!

Urban revival doesn't start with public policy, but with small movements of risk-takers.

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The Blame Game

It's true that many Iraq reconstruction projects failed, but the obstacles of rebuilding while fighting continued were many.

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What the Tea Party Really Wants

Are they angry because they think traditional values are being ignored or are they just upset the recorded message told them to press 2 for Spanish?

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Mind the Grid

Can a week of silent meditation make it easier to resist the emotional pull of the digital world?

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War Is Over ? for Some

Despite the president?s announcement that the end of the war in Iraq is near, for many it will linger on.

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Leader of Climate Panel Review Discusses Findings

The head of the review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change weighs in on the panel's leadership and flaws in its treatment of uncertainty.

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China Sustains Blunt 'You First' Message on CO2

The official who led China's delegation in recent climate negotiations says the right to a better life in poor countries trumps the responsibility to cut emissions.

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Bill Gates on R&D, a Carbon Tax and China's Climate Role

Bill Gates adds detail to his call for a research push to expand energy choices without overheating the planet.

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Elsewhere: Save the Words

In a bid to save little-used words from extinction, the Oxford University Press has launched a Web site - Save the Words - where members of the public are invited to adopt a lexeme.

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Catalysta

An unlikely portmanteau created to improve the image of cats and cat-owners - and to dispel the "crazy cat lady" cliche.

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Daily Lexeme: Dogdom

The domain or world of dogs; dogs collectively.

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