Most smoking-cessation methods - gum, lozenges, patches and nasal sprays - act as replacements for nicotine. A new approach - attacking dependency in the brain - aims to rob smokers of the nicotine buzz from cigarettes, and an injectable drug designed to do that shows promise in a new study. ...more

November 8, 2007

Regarding "Pakistan: An Uncertain Ally" (Nation/World, Nov.): Sam Rashid needs to be glad that he has been able to go to his native Pakistan every year up until a couple of years ago. I have not been able to go home to my native Kashmir since 1989. My wish to visit home may be nostalgic, but the rest of my family who lived in Kashmir for centuries were forced from their own land and had to live like refugees in their own country. Such has been the situation for two decades in Kashmir, where Kashmiri Muslim militants trained by Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in Pakistan forced their Hindu neighbors to either leave or be killed. My father was shot by his Muslim friends on Aug. 24, 1990. ...more

November 8, 2007

Image Is Everything It is no longer enough to be honorable, truthful and reliable. The next presidential election is going to be won or lost on the television screen. ...more

October 29, 2007

Faulty Logic Regarding 'Bangkok Seems Destined To Slip Below The Rising Sea' (Nation/World, Oct. 21): ...more

October 27, 2007

Please Help Victims Regarding your article 'Boarding Home Records Lead To Grandmother' (Nation/World, Oct. 7) and the 'financial maneuvering' going on, you might want to send a photographer to the grandmother's 'castle' and see the two new 'turrets' being built. ...more

October 13, 2007

Read History On GOP Regarding 'Blacks Must Wake Up To GOP Tactics' (Other Views, Sept. 28): ...more

October 5, 2007

Elderly male heart patients are two to three times more likely than female patients to receive implanted devices that shock a malfunctioning heart back into normal rhythms, and white men are about a third more likely than black men to receive them, researchers reported today. ...more

October 3, 2007

Regarding '9 Die As Myanmar's Violence Escalates' (Nation/World, Sept. 28): Once again we see a pattern emerging: A country cowed under a dictatorship is moved by some event to protest. The people do so peacefully, led by peaceful persons, in this case, Buddhist monks. Then more and more people join in. The government tries to keep it quiet from the outside world and tries to pretend that all is well. Then the government moves into violence, beats the leaders, and murders people in the streets. Try though it might, it cannot keep the world from knowing about it. ...more

September 30, 2007

For-Profit Health Care Regarding 'Nursing Home Cuts Put Costs Over Care, Analysis Finds' (Nation/World, Sept. 23): ...more

September 30, 2007

Regarding 'Last Stop In Rail Plan: Tampa' (Nation/World, Sept. 9): How is it that once again in a country supposedly governed 'by the people and for the people,' the citizenry's best interests can be so eclipsed by the back-door politics and financial interests of the extremely rich and powerful? ...more

September 22, 2007