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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Archives Revels Classifieds Real Estate Menu Guide Wedding Weather Subscribe Contact Us August 23, 2005 ‘Tapestry’ won’t disappoint fans If you are a Carole King fan, “Tapestry” at The Oregon Cabaret Theatre will take you down memory lane. It made me long for my friends from high school and college days. Jim Giancarlo’s staging is clever, and the set is magnificent. There are moments (and costumes) that I guarantee will bring a smile to your face. Jill Rendall Ashland Real victims will be meth makers (response to August 10 letter by Carol Putnam, " Drug restrictions affect innocents" ) Dear Carol , It seems that some people will go a long way to make themselves out as victims when anything the government does inconveniences them. Just because you have to buy your allergy medication at the counter does not mean you are being treated like a criminal. Do you feel like you are being treated like a criminal when you have to stand in line for a regular prescription? You blame legislators for not making effective laws just because you are inconvenienced? You say meth should be legalized or users shot on sight. Which one is it? Because you have to get your medication at the counter, it is too much of a burden on you and you would rather have a drug-infested and criminal society or a totalitarian regime that kills its citizens. I say suck it up, walk up to the counter, buy your allergy medication, and quit sniveling. When you read about the meth lab that gets shut down in the house next door because they can't get raw materials to make it, maybe you will change your story. Michael Ball Phoenix Help address pet dilemma Here’s a shocking statistic: A single unspayed female cat and her kittens who are allowed to go outdoors can produce more than 400,000 cats in just seven years. There were about 30 million housecats in 1970, 60 million in 1990, and about 90 million in 2000. In addition, experts estimate that there are more than 70 million wild/feral cats living in the United States today. That’s an estimated 160 million cats living in the United States right now. Let’s just say half of those cats are female, and let’s be conservative and say half of those females are spayed. Well, you do the math (400,000 times 40 million), and I think you can understand why there is growing alarm around the world about free-roaming cats. If you are concerned about where this issue is going, google the words “cats indoors” and you’ll see how many people have already woken up to the problem. Also, there is a very good discussion of this issue that you can listen to at www.wamu.org/programs/kn/05/08/03.php that presents three solutions to the problem. Many cities in the U.S. and abroad are considering and even passing legislation to require that companion animals, dogs and cats, be kept under control — for the sake of the animals themselves and for the sake of the wildlife that the cats are destroying. Is anyone in the Rogue Valley interested in joining me to look at and possibly address this problem by proposing local legislation? If so, please e-mail me at [email protected]. Alison Hope Ashland No such thing as absolute proof As a person with strong religious convictions and a professor of biology at SOU, I read the “intelligent design” responses in the Friday Tidings with some interest. It seems that most of the critics of ID have never actually read any ID literature, because of their blatant misconceptions. In my experience, ID is more about demanding that the scientific community produce evidence to back up their strong claims that highly complex features of organisms can be produced by random variation and natural selection. That is not an unreasonable request and I think the general public would be surprised to learn how much of evolutionary science is speculative. Unfortunately, the historical evolution of complex features is neither observable nor directly testable, making it “sham science” in Mr. McCusker’s view (see letter). However, I was most offended by Mr. Armstrong’s letter, where he stated that I (someone with a Ph.D.) “can’t think for myself” because I have faith, which he crudely defines as a belief in that which cannot be proven. There is little, even in the sciences, than can be proven beyond a doubt. The faith vs. reason argument is spurious, because all people of faith look at evidence and have reasons for what they believe. And scientists recognize that absolute proof is lacking for scientific assertions and thus a degree of “faith” is involved. Mr. Armstrong needs to read some literature on the methodology of science and, if he dare, some books on the apologetics of religion. 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