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Editorial: What in the world do we know?
One has to wonder how today's young adults will make their way in the world, when they don't have a clue where the rest of the world is.

Editorial: Spotlight on growth
DCA chief Steve Seibert is leaving the Jeb Bush administration. The governor's choice of a replacement will reveal much about the future of growth management in Florida.

Editorial: Physicians won't compromise care for drug loyalty
I am writing in response to the article by Kris Hundley regarding a pharmaceutical representative for GlaxoSmithKline PLC who took some local doctors to a waterfront restaurant for dinner recently (Ethics code: They'll drink to that, Nov. 11). The article implies that the Glaxo representative was outside of the code of ethics that was recently signed by Glaxo and many other pharmaceutical companies.

 

Columns today
Sandra Thompson: I'm needing to feel that holiday rush
Wednesday I was out in search of preholiday frenzy, just to make me feel in the mood -- even though I had no particular demands on me at all for Thanksgiving.

John Romano: Fans on the field? Forfeit your win
In times like this, we should all be grateful.

Lucy Morgan: Brotherly love dies with a hiss, spit
Acertain senator once told me he'd rather have an enema than answer my questions.

 

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.