Opinion
JOSEPH REISERT: Ants may have an edge when designing efficient systems
The really important political debate today is not between Democrats and Republicans, or between liberals and conservatives.
It’s between the architects and the ants.
The architects see the state and society as if it were a building, designed and constructed according to a rational blueprint. The architect makes the plans, then tells the various workers what to do, and when and how to do it. If the workers run into a problem, the architect wants to hear about i...
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GORDON L. WEIL: Should government spend more or less to beat recession?
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DAVID B. OFFER: Remains of ’64 quake, ’89 oil spill still scar Alaskan landscape
OUR OPINION: Pot clinics should guard against drug diversion
MAINE COMPASS: Ethnicity, gender issues make 2010 an election for history books
THEODORA KALIKOW: Where were checklists, practice for disasters before they occur?
DENIS THOET: Photographer’s day an exercise in capturing human relationships
OUR OPINION: If wind power not ‘green’ enough, then what is?
Opinion
Our View: Portland superintendent made right call on school fundraising
Every student deserves the same access to programs paid for with donated money.
Nation & World
Arizona sheriff not relenting after court ruling
Lost in the hoopla over Arizona's immigration law is the fact that state and local authorities for years have been doing their own aggressive crackdowns in the busiest illegal gateway into the country. Nowhere in the U.S. is local enforcement more present than in metropolitan Phoenix, where Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio routinely ...
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