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Editorial
Polishing smallpox preparations
The national plan unveiled last month to counter a terrorist smallpox attack is startling for what it reveals about the work left to be done. Millions more doses of vaccine must be produced and shipped throughout the country. Thousands of clinicians must be recruited and trained, and the government must activate an outreach campaign that is nationwide, multilingual and reliable. The states may need more money from Washington, and the federal government should be prepared to help.

Editorial
Our man of peace
In former President Jimmy Carter, the Nobel Committee has found a recipient truly worthy of the peace prize.

Letters
Few Cubans will benefit from U.S. trade
Re: Cuba gets taste of America, Oct. 1.

 

Columns today
Lucy Morgan
The Noelle dilemma: Punish, or treat?
For a parent there is no greater pain than seeing a child in trouble. Being governor does not make it any easier.

Sandra Thompson
Maybe this is why our downtown is a letdown
Last week, in the throes of giddiness over having just returned from a real city -- Vancouver, B.C. -- I noticed something about Tampa I wish I hadn't. At first, I saw the potential here, and there is a lot. I saw ferries like Vancouver's shuttling from the Channel District to downtown to Bayshore Boulevard. A monorail like Vancouver's SkyTrain running from the suburbs to downtown and Ybor City. Sleek residential towers downtown, cheek to jowl with renovated older buildings converted to lofts and condos. Restaurants, cafes, performance spaces, bookstores.

Ernest Hooper
The sisterhood's new generation
Wendy Wiegler had something important to tell her parents. Really important.

 

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.