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Civil Air Patrol North Central Region Commander Col. John O'Neill has named Michael Marek, of Vermillion, as t...

The Panamerica is one of the longest roads in the world - it runs some 48,000 km through the North and South American continents, all the way from Alaska to the southermost tip of Argentina. But there's a long gap in Panama before the road continues in Colombia. Local people are not happy about their lack of access to economic opportunities that come with being connected.

To the Editor: A good metaphor for too much choice is an email ad I recently received about tennis rackets. Wilson is among several other companies that make more than 30 models each. Besides never being able to try all of them, unless your last name is Federer or Nadal, you would lack the expertise to tell the difference between them. Michael Marek To the Editor: Kudos to Paul Krugman for highlighting the dizzying aspect of a surfeit of choice in modern American consumer mania. But it should be pointed out that much of modern American business thrives on precisely this advantage of possessin...

Tierra del Fuego: Harsh lives and a global history  Tierra del Fuego, or the Land of Fire, is on the southern tip of South America. The landscape with its fjords, glaciers and even rainforests is beautiful, but it can also be a pretty harsh place for the people living there. Europeans first set foot there 500 years ago when they were looking for a passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans around Cape Horn. It became the main trading route between the Indies and Europe for centuries. But most of the indigenous Yagán did not survive their encounter with the white intruders. By the e...

Egypt 10 years Uprising This week marks the 10th anniversary of Egypt’s national uprising. On January 25, 2011, millions of Egyptians took to the streets to protest against the regime of then President Hosni Mubarak. They managed to topple the long-term autocrat. But instead of a democracy, Egyptians got a repressive police state – yet again  Report: Jürgen Stryiak  Online delivery distress  While lockdowns continue in many countries to decrease the transmission of the Coronavirus, one industry that's profited are online sales companies. People are ordering everything from food to fu...