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Cut Back On Alternate-Side Parking, Save Fuel
      We have no statistics on this matter, but it seems fairly obvious that moving a car from one side of a street to the other at least four times a week (across and back twice) expends a substantial amount of gasoline.
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Memorial At Ground Zero
      To The Editor: With recent newspaper articles and editorials decrying the lack of "progress" and vast "overruns" in cost in rebuilding at the World Trade Center site- after almost seven years- I made another "pilgrimage" from Bayside to Lower Manhattan this week to see what has changed since my last L.I.R.R.
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Obama Backtracks
      To The Editor: I am writing to comment on recent troubling developments in the presidential race. After what was described by many pundits as an interminable race in the Democratic primary between Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama, Obama emerged as the presumed candidate of the Democratic Party.
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Facts About Obama
      To The Editor: Well known facts exist regarding Barack Obama which may be legal but not beyond question. As chairman of Chicago's Health & Human Services Committee, he pushed through the Health Facilities Planning Act, reducing board members from 15 to 9, making votes easier to pass, and subsequently received money from board nominees.
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Knowledge Is Power
      To The Editor: In the Bible, the prophet Isaiah (5:13) laments, "Therefore my people have gone into captivity because they have no knowledge." Today, people are very concerned about our poor economy. However, most are unaware that it was caused by their lack of knowledge and/or unwillingness to do something about it.
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