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• Consumer spending fizzles as savings rise

  Mon Jan 30, 2012
  • It is a screwy country when saving for the future is considered bad.

• Marine in hazing suicide case goes to trial

  Mon Jan 30, 2012
  • Yes, I agree. The Marines have very high standards, and if he couldn't make them, he should not be in the Marines. Rather than kicking and beating him, he should have been kicked out of the organization or sent back to boot camp.

• Marine in hazing suicide case goes to trial

  Mon Jan 30, 2012
  • Brian, is kicking and punching the normal disciplinary action for dereliction of duty? Seriously, I am curious. And if he was not "marine material" then he should not have been excepted or "passed" boot camp.

• Marine in hazing suicide case goes to trial

  Mon Jan 30, 2012
  • Nick, you have no understanding of mental health.

• Japan's population to drop by 1 million each year in coming decades, experts say

  Mon Jan 30, 2012
  • no stress, the world population reached 7 billion on October 31, 2011. (check it out on the net). So your statement that that e population will stabilize through "culling" at 5 billion is erroneous.

• Japan's population to drop by 1 million each year in coming decades, experts say

  Mon Jan 30, 2012
  • I doubt it, carpenter. It is pretty hard to move in your seventies and learn a new language and culture.

• Japan's population to drop by 1 million each year in coming decades, experts say

  Mon Jan 30, 2012
  • Well, don't forget that it is the developed countries with low populations growth which use most of the natural resources and create most of the pollution.

• Japan's population to drop by 1 million each year in coming decades, experts say

  Mon Jan 30, 2012
  • If one is healthy and has not done physical labor, it isn't hard to work to 70 or 80. But many, many people have health problems beginning in their 60's which make if very hard if not impossible to continue working much past 65....

• Teen in tragic train accident: 'I remember thinking I was going to die'

  Fri Jan 27, 2012
  • Sherwood, that is the point. That she realizes that it was a stupid thing to do. No one is saying that she was brave for jumping the train, or that she should be held up as an example for what she did.

• Afghan parents, son guilty in 'honor' killings

  Sun Jan 29, 2012
  • Canada and Australia have burgeoning Muslim immigrant populations, and this type of thing is becoming a common problem in those countries. We in the US also have many Muslim immigrants, but not such a large percentage of the whole population.