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Letter: Keep your germs to yourself

They say that this cold and flu season could be really dangerous. It might not be just a runny nose, nagging cough, and a bag full of over-the-counter meds all over our nightstands. It promises to be a month-long, very painful cough, hourly visits to the toilet, yuk, and a large bill for doctor ...

GARVEY: ‘Once upon a time’ is a place we can find again

"Where is the good news?" my son asked the other day, the kind of simple question that can only come from a child. Obvious, sensical, trusting. He still believes in our essential goodness and still wants to know about humanity's small kindnesses and large achievements. We had been ...

BARONE: Will falling birth rates mean a more conservative world?

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was emerging from wartime rigors into an uncharted postwar future, Orwell noted that despite an ...