How I aborted my nephew - ( from TRUE CONFESSIONS )

My brother John is beginning to feel ripe for Fatherhood in

    his late thirties. On my mothers birthday he shows up at the house

    with a potential candidate for mother of his kid. But I was not

    impressed for a number of reasons and big brother's opinion carries

    a lot of weight :

            I called him the very next day with this advice : " Forget

    about it, John . She SMOKES !

THE REVEREND Ahlburn?

            I enjoy the Rev. Thomas E. Ahlburn 's columns that appear

    now and then in your Saturday Religion section. And I wish he had an

    E-mail address. I AGREE with the man .Yet he annoys me, because in a

    way he a bit of a charlatan himself: If God is simply not a REALITY for

    him, then why not drop the REVEREND Thomas farce ? Is not his First

    Unitarian Church really just a social club for respectable people

    who are too sophisticated to worship God but also too sophisticated

    NOT to worship middle class success ?

            Is the REVEREND Ahlburn the ideal Sunday morning preacher

    for non-believing  East Side chiropractors ?

            Does his column - which I admire - belong on the Religion page ?

        Dominus Vobiscum !

Bean counters spit on " miracle of life " (to Bob Kerr @Projo.com)

         Thanks for another quality column Bob. Those bean counters

    spit on the " miracle of life ". I just hope those Women and Infants

    can collect weekly unemployment benefits. And I hope the strike can

    be settled with a minimum of groveling on the part of the harried

    workers.

          I know it sounds " crackpot " to many still, but I say nationalize

    the entire health care industry . Take the BUSINESS out of health care !

          Have a HEALTHY day  Bob ( with health care workers on strike )

        note: W&I nurses

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     Ron Ruggieri

Safe Chemistry Class

             If anybody observed me a couple of weeks ago in front of

    a computer screen at main branch of Cranston Public Library, they

    might have concluded that I was  thrilled by violent and colorful

    explosions.  Did I miss my true vocation ?

        Actually I was fascinated by the computer program, " Chemistry

    Set. "   All the chemistry you never learned in high school or

    college made more playful and a lot safer.

           A lot of time is wasted in school chemistry labs just

    making a mess, fearing the Big Bang right there, and your mind

    freezing with the fear of  appearing an inept dummkopf.

         The Chemistry Set accelerates the learning process. For

    example , the student can instantly view in rotating three

    dimensions any molecule being discussed. In a click one gets

    important data - boiling point, freezing point, solubility,

    preparation and uses, etc - on hundreds of elements and

    compounds.

         In a click one gets summary biographys of important

    chemists  like Lavoisier and Cavendish .

           I just wish there were many more everyday experiments

    on film. Girls who are shy about making a mess of themselves

    now have no excuse not to learn a little basic chemistry.

          Will the alarm go off again as the strange man with the

    mysterious black bag exits the library ?