Category: Letter

Last spring, Michael and Cathy Deering of Eden Prairie fled for Barra de Navidad, a country beach town along the Costa Allegre (“Happy Coast”) of western Mexico. There they riffed on the theme of our March issue by engaging in a whole other sort of body count. Author(s) and Location: Michael and Cathy Deering

A note from the publisher: Due to a breakdown in our crack fact-checking department (which was caused, if you must know, by a complete failure on our part to acknowledge the distraction caused by the failing infrastructure of the American road system, the war on terror, and the recent Twins losses to the Cleveland Indians),…

Reading The Rake in a hand-pulled rickshaw is not recommended for a weak stomach. Tim Leone-Getten and Leslie Olmen visited Calcutta, India with other area teachers on a South Asia teacher exchange program with Hamline University and Relief International. Author(s) and Location: Leslie Olmen

The hardiest breed of Minnesotan can’t get enough snow, even in summer. That’s why Kami Brueshaber and Jason Aide of Minneapolis chased winter all the way to Talkeetna, Alaska, a “teeny town in the shadows of Mount McKinley,” wrote Brueshaber. She added: “Everyone there has a real laid-back attitude. Don’t expect much to be happenin’…

I just read your August issue about the autistic teenager and the “violent, unpredictable man” that those pills turned him into [“Crazy”]. I am not writing to make any kind of stand on medicating autistic or ADHD kids. To be honest, I’m not really a fan of pills for kids (other then those that are…

I was saddened to read Ms. Bauer’s article, and am somewhat relieved that in this instance most of the effects of misdiagnoses and poor management appear to be temporary. I am one of the psychiatrists who was featured in Gardiner Harris’s New York Times article [“After Sanctions, Doctors Get Drug Company Pay,” New York Times,…