The New American articles from November 2004

The New American archives from November 2004

9/11 Pentagon attack.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2004... Thank you for your article on the Pentagon attack of 9/11 ("Getting the Facts Straight" by Dennis Behreandt, August 23 issue). I, like the author, am aware of the doubts that Flight 77 actually crashed into the Pentagon. These doubts are based...

Middle America.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2004... I wish to thank THE NEW AMERICAN for its recent printing of "Finding America's Heart and Soul" (October 4 letter to the editor regarding the March 22 cover story "America's Hidden Strength"). With the long demise of the old Saturday Evening...

New CFR acquisitions.(Insider Report)(Council on Foreign Relations new members.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The 2004 annual report of the Council on Foreign Relations, the group described by late Washington Post ombudsman Richard Harwood as the American "ruling establishment," lists a total of 251 new members. Of that number 111 are designated...

Iraq war and oil price spike.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... "The U.S.-led invasion [of Iraq] has resulted in the loss of an average of 2 million barrels a day of Iraqi oil from world markets," wrote New York Times Middle East correspondent Youssef M. Ibrahim in the October 5 USA Today. "That is a...

Sweden reining in men?(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... It's an economic axiom that if a government wants less of something, it should tax it. Thus it's tempting to think that the "man tax" proposed by a group of far-left Swedish parliamentarians is an attempt to exterminate the male population of...

No WMD? Whatever.(Insider Report)
November 1, 2004... "We found the weapons of mass destruction," insisted President Bush in a May 29, 2003 interview on Polish national television. "We found biological laboratories.... They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so...

Mexico wants a North American EU.(Insider Report)
November 1, 2004... "I would like to see a border similar to the one that Europe has right now... where they have common, very common objectives," stated Mexican Foreign Ministry official Arturo Gonzalez Cruz in a recent Tijuana interview. Mexico's "border Czar"...

National Guard and Reserve in crisis.(Insider Report)
November 1, 2004... In early October, an Army National Guard unit in Sacramento "that usually processes paperwork for other soldiers going overseas was called up to serve for more than a year in Iraq," reported the San Francisco Examiner. "The soldiers were told...

A step back from a draft.(Insider Report)
November 1, 2004... On October 5, House Republicans called a vote on a measure sponsored by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) that would have re-instituted conscription. The bill was defeated by a vote of 4022. (Rep. Rangel was among those voting against the measure.)...

Putin personality cult grows.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... "President Vladimir Putin celebrated his 52nd birthday yesterday basking in the warm afterglow of a Soviet-style cult of personality," reported the October 8 London Independent. "Although he and his officials insist they have no desire to...

Interpol pushing to be UN globocop.(Insider Report)
November 1, 2004... The International Criminal Police Organization, better known as Interpol, held its 73rd General Assembly October 5-8 in Cancun, Mexico. More than 450 delegates from 120 countries gathered at the posh Mexican resort city to elect a new president...

Radicals co-opt 9/11 whistleblowers: Americans need to be warned about subversive groups, such as the IPS, which play at being patriotic while subverting our ideals and selling out our secrets.(On The Home Front)
November 1, 2004... Imagine a "public interest" group named Citizens Against Organized Crime headed up by convicted Mafia chief John Gotti. Or a Foundation to Protect Abused Wives run by O.J. Simpson and Scott Peterson. Or a Fund for Human Kindness sponsored by...

The Conservative Index: our fourth look at the 108th Congress shows how every member of the House and Senate voted on key issues, including foreign aid, national defense, and taxes.(Congress)
November 1, 2004... House Vote Descriptions 31 Defunding U.S. Participation in UNESCO. This amendment to the appropriations bill for the Commerce, Justice, and State Departments (H.R. 4754) would effectively end U.S. participation in UNESCO by defunding it....

Maverick vs. Chameleon: Oklahoma's Senate race presents one of the most clear-cut contests between a principled conservative and an opportunistic liberal with a covert radical agenda.(Elections)
November 1, 2004... "One word tends to appear over and over in descriptions of Tom Coburn--'maverick.'" So began a description of U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Tom Coburn in a September 24 profile on PBS' "Online NewsHour" Vote 2004 series. "The family physician...

Other choices for President: though they don't get many headlines, alternative presidential candidates to Bush and Kerry are on the ballot.(Elections)
November 1, 2004... The presidential race is the political equivalent of big-league sports. Like football fans eager to display their mastery of team standings and player statistics, political junkies are able to regurgitate the "internals" of each candidate's...

Potshots at home schooling: critics of the home-schooling movement continue to snipe at parents who teach their children at home, portraying them as paranoid radicals and, now, potential terrorists.(Education)
November 1, 2004... If you can't beat 'em, smear 'em. Apparently that is the approach adopted by critics of home schooling. One such disturbing example of a smear on the credibility of home-schoolers came in the form of the February 17, 2004 episode of NBC's Law...

Bursting bubbles.(Ahead Of The Curve)
November 1, 2004... ITEM: "The housing market is rapidly losing touch with reality" warned the September 20 cover story in Fortune magazine, describing the Fed-fueled nationwide housing and mortgage "bubble." "Fueled by interest rates that have remained near...

Borderline insanity.(Ahead Of The Curve)
November 1, 2004... ITEM: "The U.S.'s borders, rather than becoming more secure since 9/11, have grown even more porous," reported a September 20 Time cover story. "It's fair to estimate... that the number of illegals flooding into the U.S. this year will total 3...

Neighborhood watch.(The Goodness Of America)
November 1, 2004... On the afternoon of August 12, a 12-year-old Salt Lake City, Utah, girl was walking in her neighborhood when she noticed a man in a parked vehicle staring at her and pulling his pants' zipper up and down. She started to run, but the deviate...

Road rescue.(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... On February 13, 2003, in Montague, Texas, a car driven by William Minor IV was struck from behind by another vehicle, rupturing its fuel tank and igniting a fire that quickly spread from the rear to the interior. Minor was knocked unconscious....

Supporting his local police.(The Goodness Of America)
November 1, 2004... Linden, Texas, police officer Sherry Gillespie was attempting to detain a suspect in the parking lot of a supermarket after a routine traffic stop on May 11, 2003, when the man began pushing and shoving her. Customer Patrick Coughlan, who was...

Fire fight.(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... On November 29, 2002, Lee Geller, 92, was in her second-floor apartment in Millburn, New Jersey, when a fire ignited in the unit below, quickly filling her residence with smoke. Off-duty firefighter Bruce Hornecker, who lives nearby, was...

The imperial republic: once a republic reluctant to fight wars except in self-defense, Rome became an imperial colossus capable of annihilating an entire nation out of sheer spite.(History--Rome)
November 1, 2004... This is the third installment in a series of articles on the rise and fall of the Roman Republic. In all of human history, there have been few spectacles to rival the great battles of the ancient world with their pageantry, color--and...

Roundup.(Exercising The Right)
November 1, 2004... Bob Buttrum and his wife own and operate the Midway Mart in Bluford, Illinois. Shortly before noon on May 26, a car and its four occupants pulled up to one of the convenience store's gasoline pumps. After filling the tank, the driver dropped...

BB gun bluff.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... On September 9, Jessica Shafford was alone in the home that she shares with her boyfriend in Bath Township, Ohio. At around 2:30 p.m., she was relaxing in the living room when she heard a vehicle stop nearby. She saw two men get out of a pickup...

Home invasion.(Exercising The Right)
November 1, 2004... On the afternoon of July 14, James Burnett was showering at his apartment in Grand Prairie, Texas, when a female friend in the living room began screaming. Two men armed with a handgun and a crowbar had forced their way into the residence. ...

Bewildered bandit.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Shortly before midnight on June 23, two men and a woman in a vehicle with California license plates pulled into a Fuel-N-Go gas station in Coburg, Oregon. One of the men went into the store, pretended to have a gun, and demanded money from the...

Canada's sick system.(Between The Lines)
November 1, 2004... ITEM: Speaking in Iowa, Jean Chretien, the former prime minister of Canada, praised his country's health care. As reported by KCRG-TV (Cedar Rapids) on September 15, Chretien claimed that Canada's "single-payer health care system works well,...

Economic illusion strikes again.(Between The Lines)
November 1, 2004... ITEM: A succession of hurricanes had a positive economic impact, according to USA Today for September 27. "Although natural disasters spread destruction and economic pain to a wide variety of businesses, for some, it can mean a burst in...

War is Peace.(The Last Word)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Author Philip Roth's latest offering, The Plot Against America, is a labor of hate. Presented as an alternate history of World War II-era America in which Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election, Roth's novel depicts the general...

Information and action.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
November 15, 2004... I've been receiving THE NEW AMERICAN for awhile now, due to a John Birch Society member bringing his copy to work and allowing me to read its contents. No, I'm not a "Bircher," nor do I currently intend to join. However, I thought you might...

Democracy vs. Republic.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
November 15, 2004... William F. Jasper is right on target with his article "The Democracy Shibboleth" (THE NEW AMERICAN, October 4 issue). The greatest problem with our nation is that people fail to understand the differences between a democracy and a republic....

Coburn-Carson senate race.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
November 15, 2004... Thank you for publishing Bill Jasper's outstanding article on the Tom Coburn/grad Carson Senate contest in Oklahoma ("Maverick vs. Chameleon"). Just today (Wednesday, October 27) Brad Carson launched a radio ad which, even for him, is a...

School prayer: an ounce of prevention.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
November 15, 2004... Hooray for Laurette Elsberry's letter to the editor, entitled "Marriages That Aren't," in the September 20 issue of THE NEW AMERICAN. Even the Christian ministers are referring to "gay marriages." I have chastised them by commenting that...

Draft momentum continues.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... "The Selective Service has been updating its contingency plans for a draft of doctors, nurses and other health care workers in case of a national emergency that overwhelmed the military's medical corps," reported the October 20 New York Times....

Chinese moves in North America.(Insider Report)
November 15, 2004... Washington is increasingly relying on China to help underwrite our ever-enlarging budget and trade deficits. China, on the other hand, is using its huge trade surplus to fund economic expansion, particularly by acquiring natural resources...

Global population implosion.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... "For decades, much has been written about the world's exploding population," noted an October 7 Christian Science Monitor report. "But 60 countries, about a third of all nations, have fertility rates today below 2. I children per woman, the...

Hate crimes prosecution in Philadelphia.(Insider Report)
November 15, 2004... During October 7 negotiations to reconcile House and Senate versions of the 2005 defense authorization bill, negotiators for the GOP-led House succeeded in removing an amendment that would have added "sexual orientation" to the categories...

Sci-Fi weaponry.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... "The Air Force expects planes will be able to fire non-lethal microwave rays at enemy ground troops with the help of a new superconducting generator system developed at Wright Patterson Air Force Base after about 25 years of research," reported...

Declining dollar and economic interdependence.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... In mid-October, the dollar fell below $1.26 per euro "for the first time since February, erasing this year's gain," reported Bloomberg financial news service on October 20. "Speculators are loading up with boatloads of euros," commented...

He's kidding--right?(Insider Report)
November 15, 2004... Last February, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan--whose loose money and easy credit policies unleashed a surge of mortgage lending and refinancing--made it clear interest rates would soon start to rise from their historic lows. He also...

Russian-dominated "OPEC" in the making?(Insider Report)
November 15, 2004... While public attention has understandably been focused on the spiraling cost of crude oil, relatively little heed has been paid to our increasing reliance on natural gas, which is likely to become the world's second leading energy source within...

The "Arnold Amendment"?(Insider Report)
November 15, 2004... It is an enduring irony of the current political climate that Republicans are inclined nowadays to ignore constitutional limits on power or propose radical changes to the Constitution, and Democrats are outspoken in defending the Constitution...

Promoting Kinsey, censoring grandma.(The Right Perspective)
November 15, 2004... On November 12, Fox Searchlight, a branch of Rupert Murdoch's 20th Century Fox studios, releases Kinsey, the much-heralded film glorifying the life and work of Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey. The movie boasts the star power of Liam Neeson (Schindler's...

Psychiatry and the state: the federal government plans a new role in delivering mental health care. Historically, however, governments have used psychiatric techniques for harm rather than for good.(Totalitarian Medicine)(Cover Story)
November 15, 2004... On April 29, 2002, President George W. Bush issued an executive order creating a new commission charged with finding ways to "improve America's mental health service delivery system." One year later, the Orwellian-sounding New Freedom...

Planned therapeutic nanny state: no matter the motives, efforts to do routine mental health testing on children in America's schools need to be stopped before they do irreparable damage.(Totalitarian Medicine)(Cover Story)
November 15, 2004... The "Final Report" of the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, a federal panel created in 2002 to "promote successful community integration for adults with a serious mental illness and children with a serious emotional disturbance," calls...

TSA: thieves, spendthrifts, authoritarians: from tormenting Americans at airports to bilking taxpayers, the Transportation Security Administration has compiled a remarkable record of thuggishness and corruption.(On The Home Front)
November 15, 2004... The air was thick with self-congratulation at the Washington, D.C., Grand Hyatt as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) convened its first annual awards ceremony on November 19, 2003. More than a thousand attendees were on hand as...

9/11 legislation: making things worse: while leaving our borders open to terrorists and illegal aliens, Congress and the White House push for more power--and more attacks on the rights of U.S. citizens.(On The Home Front)
November 15, 2004... In the rush to adjourn before the elections, both houses of Congress passed bills aimed at implementing the recommendations of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (The 9/11 Commission). The Senate was first to...

Unearthing skull and bones.(Ahead Of The Curve)
November 15, 2004... ITEM: As if just having discovered something no one else knew, an October 22, 2004 article distributed by Reuters bared the fact that both Democrat John Kerry and Republican George W. Bush "joined the same secret society: Skull and Bones" when...

EU: an end to independence.(Ahead Of The Curve)
November 15, 2004... ITEM: On October 13, 2004, the New York Times reported that the European Union Commission plans to exert its authority. over Germany at the European Court of Justice for refusing to scrap a law protecting the Volkswagen company from any...

Support (from) your local sheriff: John Adams said there must be "a force of law and justice" to prevent either federal tyranny or anarchy. Local sheriffs and police were meant to provide that force.(War On The West)
November 15, 2004... After the Revolutionary War and the subsequent creation of the U.S. Constitution, certain safeguards to protect our newly acquired liberties were established. Among these was the requirement that all government officials, including the military...

Inadvertent catnapper.(The Goodness Of America)
November 15, 2004... Oscar, a six-year-old cat owned by Salt Lake City, Utah, residents John and Christine Anselmi and their two small sons, has traveled cross-country with the family more than once. Recently, however, the seasoned feline sightseer took a trip that...

Teamwork.(The Goodness Of America)
November 15, 2004... At about 4:30 p.m. on August 20, a minivan driven by Virginia Martin veered off a road in Muskegon, Michigan. It hit a power pole, plunged down a hill, and caught fire. Someone who witnessed the mishap called the Muskegon County Sheriff's...

Persistence pays off.(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... On June 29, 2003, in Kingston, Idaho, a pickup truck driven by Vaughn Gaschet de l'Isle was involved in an accident which caused it to leave the road, partially overturn, and lie with its passenger side door pressed against an embankment. Fire...

Rise of the welfare/warfare state: the death throes of the once-great Roman Republic began when its leadership embarked on militarism and exploited class envy to consolidate power.(History-Rome)
November 15, 2004... This is the fourth installment in a series of articles on the rise and fall of the Roman Republic. The man sped down the Capitoline Hill from the Roman Senate, fleeing from a bloodthirsty mob. At a wooden bridge several of his companions...

Disarmament controversy.(Exercising The Right)
November 15, 2004... On September 18, in the wake of increasing congressional support for legislation seeking repeal of many of the District of Columbia's draconian domestic disarmament statutes, the notoriously anti-gun Washington Post editorialized against the...

Bungled robbery.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... Shortly alter 11 p.m. on June 19, a car pulled up to an International House of Pancakes in south Kansas City, Kansas. One of two male occupants went inside the restaurant, pulled a gun on the manager, then emptied the cash register. Before the...

Clear cut case.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... Michael Moore of Fremont, Michigan, owns D&M Produce in Egelston Township. On September 19, he was working in his office shortly after 1:15 a.m. when he heard a doorknob jiggle. Armed with a loaded pellet gun and dressed in camouflage...

Domestic duel.(Exercising The Right)(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... Chad Hill and girlfriend Ashley New had been dating about four months when, on June 14, New arrived badly beaten at a hospital in Missoula, Montana. She was suffering from several facial fractures, a concussion, two black eyes, and sundry...

Lame claims for embryonic stem-cell research.(Between The Lines)
November 15, 2004... ITEM: The October 12 Times-Republican (Marshalltown, Iowa) reported that Sen. John Edwards lauded Christopher Reeve's attempts to expand embryonic stem-cell research. Edwards vowed that, if elected, "We will do stem cell research. We will stop...

Interesting junk mail.(The Last Word)
November 15, 2004... Who doesn't get junk mail? Whose mail box isn't regularly stuffed with requests for donations, pleas for political support, "fantastic" bargains for goods and services, "now or never" savings on subscriptions, etc.? All of us wonder at times...

New CFR members.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
November 29, 2004... Among the notable newcomers to membership in the Council on Foreign Relations you have included Andrea Mitchell of NBC News ("New CFR Acquisitions." November 1 issue of THE NEW AMERICAN). She is the wife of another CFR member. Alan Greenspan,...

Interpol pushing to be UN Globocop.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
November 29, 2004... I write to you with regard to an article which appeared in THE NEW AMERICAN (Vol. 20, No. 22) November 1, 2004 entitled "Interpol Pushing to Be UN-Globocop." The raid by Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents on the Branch Davidian compound...

Robert W. Lee, R.I.P.(Obituary)
November 29, 2004... Robert W. Lee, longtime contributor to THE NEW AMERICAN, passed away on November 3. Bob's byline appeared in our very first issue (September 30, 1985), and his articles have appeared regularly in these pages ever since, including, in recent...

Osama bin Lenin.(Insider Report)
November 29, 2004... In his election-eve video message delivered to the Arab network al-Jazeera, terrorist chieftain Osama bin Laden "repositioned himself as the only leader willing to confront the world's sole superpower," commented veteran foreign correspondent...

Post-election economic tremors.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
November 29, 2004... On November 3, with most of the nation still fixated on the closely fought presidential election, the Bush administration quietly announced "that it will run out of maneuvering room to manage the government's massive borrowing needs in two...

Outsourcing industry applauds Bush victory.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
November 29, 2004... "We are very happy that Bush is back," exulted Kiran S. Karnik, president of the Indian outsourcing firm Nasscom. "Some corporations have been cautious about signing or announcing deals in the last few months.... Now they will no longer hold...

Consummating the border betrayal.(Insider Report)
November 29, 2004... The moderator of the third Bush-Kerry debate in Tempe, Arizona, CBS News personality Bob Schieffer, observed that he had received countless e-mails urging him to raise the issue of immigration. As is noted elsewhere in this issue (see article...

China and Iran draw closer.(Insider Report)(Sinopec Group Co. has signed oil and natural gas agreement )
November 29, 2004... In late October, China's government-owned Sinopec Group signed a $70 billion oil and natural gas agreement with Iran. Under the terms of the agreement, "Sinopec Group will buy 250 million tons of liquefied natural gas over 30 years from Iran...

Anti-Christian EU's religious test.(Insider Report)
November 29, 2004... Rocco Buttliglione, Italy's minister for European affairs, was tapped by incoming European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to serve as the European Union's Justice Commissioner. A devout Catholic often referred to as a confidant of...

Another portent of draft renewal.(Insider Report)
November 29, 2004... On November 4--two days after the election--the Selective Service System published a notice in the Federal Register announcing a data checking arrangement with the Department of Education. The new arrangement "enables [the Education Department]...

Ending the myth of unilateralism.(Insider Report)
November 29, 2004... On numerous occasions during the past three years, THE NEW AMERICAN has maintained, citing official pronouncements from President Bush and high-ranking members of the administration, that the "unilateralist" image of the Bush administration is...

Latin America continues leftward march.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
November 29, 2004... "The left made more inroads into Latin America" with the election of Tabare Varquez to serve as president of Uruguay, reported the AP on November 1. Varquez, the first leftist to lead Uruguay, "won the presidency in his third attempt after...

Terrorist crossing: cover-up on the U.S.-Mexico border.(Insider Report)
November 29, 2004... What price will we pay in future terrorist attacks because of our continued failure to protect our borders? How many terrorists are slipping into the U.S. along with the millions of illegal aliens? No one knows, and federal officials are trying...

End UN interference in our elections.(The Right Perspective)
November 29, 2004... When the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a United Nations-affiliated organization, sent observers to monitor our elections on November 2, it sparked widespread criticism from conservatives. Principled...

Foreign nations target U.S. steel: steel is the backbone and sinews of modern society. Without a robust domestic steel industry, we will not prosper in peace--or survive in war.(American Industry)(Cover Story)
November 29, 2004... Kim Haws is the kind of entrepreneur who Republicans and Democrats both hold up as the exemplar of the American inventor-manufacturer we want to keep in this country. Mr. Haws is the owner of Agri-Trac manufacturing in Mesa, Washington, a small...

Cement production hits a concrete wall: U.S. businesses and households are feeling the brunt of short-sighted environmental activism as America's supply of cement dries up.(American Industry)(Cover Story)
November 29, 2004... If you couldn't get cement to pour the new patio you had planned in August, or if the increase in the price of concrete added several thousand dollars to the final cost of your new home, you can blame China or the Sierra Club or the federal...

The manufactured divide: rhetoric aside, little of substance separated George W. Bush from John Kerry--and a second Bush term will do nothing to reduce the size, expense, and power of government.(Elections)
November 29, 2004... The narrowness of President Bush's margin of re-election victory over John Kerry vividly illustrates that little of substance separated the candidates from each other. This is further demonstrated by the fact that many voters in key states,...

Moral issues mobilize Bush support: with moral issues looming large, both presidential candidates appealed to pious voters, but Bush more successfully aligned himself with the religious populace.(Elections)
November 29, 2004... The guardians of official opinion were both stunned and aghast at the election results. Not only did the American people choose the "conservative" candidate lot president and increase the Republican majority in the U.S. House and Senate, the...

Bushwhacked? The GOP is not what it used to be. But no matter how far to the left it has moved, the Democrats make it appear conservative by offering an even more liberal alternative.(Snapshots)
November 29, 2004... "Republicans in Congress [have been] told that because of 9/11 and the war, we must support things we have always opposed: huge increases in our national debt, whopping deficits, and massive foreign aid. I hope we will soon return to a truly...

Same-sex "marriage" issue hurt Kerry campaign.(Ahead Of The Curve)(Brief Article)
November 29, 2004... ITEM: The New York Times was not alone in reporting on November 4 that "'state constitutional amendments increased the turnout of socially-concerned voters in many of the 11 states where the measures appeared" on Election Day. "The amendments,...

But he was correct about leaving it to the States.(Ahead Of The Curve)(Brief Article)
November 29, 2004... ITEM: In the Boston Globe for November 5. columnist Scot Lehigh noted of the defeated Democratic presidential candidate: "Kerry had tried to finesse gay marriage by announcing his opposition to it while saying the issue should be left to the...

The ring.(The Goodness Of America)
November 29, 2004... Randy Lester of Grace, Idaho, graduated in 1967 from North Gem High School in Bancroft. So that he could purchase a school jacket and a $189 school ring, Lester had worked at the school for nearly two years to earn money. Six months after...

Trash treasure.(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)
November 29, 2004... During his years as a trash collector in Michigan, Andrew Pritt of Mount Pleasant has often come across valuable and/or unique items discarded (often inadvertently) by residents and businesses. He recalls, for instance, that when he worked in...