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A victory for France
French voters overwhelmingly rejected Jean-Marie Le Pen's bigoted challenge, but they also sent a message to re-elected President Jacques Chirac.

Dangerous electricity pollution
American Electric Power, one of the country's largest generators of electricity and one of its worst polluters, has come up with a novel way to solve a problem at its coal-fired plant near Cheshire, Ohio. Emissions from the plant wrap the town in a haze of sulfuric acid and rain down milky droplets, soot, white specks and other irritants on the population of 221, according to the Columbus Dispatch. Sulfur compounds are five times higher than the level that can trigger an asthma attack, and the town's residents have complained of burning eyes, headaches and white-colored burns on their lips and tongues.

Letters
Not treating mental illness has high costs
Re: Mental health bill is a dilemma by Sara Fritz, April 29.

Bill Maxwell
Speak up to protect Boyd Hill Nature Park
A black racer crosses my path. A gopher tortoise nibbles grass near its burrow. A hawk floats on a wind current. Butterflies bob and weave among flower petals. An otter dives beneath a sheet of vegetation. I am in the woods enjoying raw nature, in the middle of St. Petersburg, in Boyd Hill Nature Park.
 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
Child abuse scandals cry out for us all to truly care
This current scandal over the state's mishandling of child abuse cases, the latest in a long series of scandals, tempts some of us toward simple answers.

Ernest Hooper
Plunging headlong through a day of haphazard revelations
From start to finish, Tuesday was a day of realizations for me.

Robert Trigaux
Memos reveal scale of Enron's deceit
Quiz time.

Bill Maxwell
Speak up to protect Boyd Hill Nature Park
A black racer crosses my path. A gopher tortoise nibbles grass near its burrow. A hawk floats on a wind current. Butterflies bob and weave among flower petals. An otter dives beneath a sheet of vegetation. I am in the woods enjoying raw nature, in the middle of St. Petersburg, in Boyd Hill Nature Park.

Gary Shelton
C'mon guys, it's not that hard
When it comes to the last pitcher in the game, the first thing we can agree on is this. It's a tough job.

Susan Taylor Martin
Israel going pro when it talks with U.S. media
ST. PETERSBURG -- Daniel Seaman, chief spokesman for the Israeli government, doesn't envy journalists who cover the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

 

Perspective
Taking jobs, alienating customers
For weeks Americans have been told that the outsourcing of high-tech jobs is good for our economy. So said Greg Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a recent report signed by President Bush. So, too, writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in articles praising the rise of call centers in India used for everything from making airline reservations and reading medical X-ray films to providing tech support for American computer firms.

Philip Gailey: Democrats fall off campaign finance reform wagon
Well, what do you know. Soft money is back, and it's making hypocrites of all those Democrats who fervently championed the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law, not to mention those Republicans who objected to the law's restrictions on issue advocacy.

Bill Maxwell: Who is for the farm worker?
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is touting legislation to improve the lives of Florida's 300,000-plus farm workers, who endure institutional and systemic injustices each day in our fields and groves and their personal lives.

Robyn E. Blumner: For some defendants, an American gulag
In Bernard Malamud's masterpiece The Fixer, inmate Yakov Bok was subjected to psychological torture in a Soviet gulag through the humiliations of constant shackling and repeated strip searches.