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Francis X. Rocca replies: Mr. Ptak's correction is well taken. I shouldn't have generalized about Europe, since my experience with medical care is limited to Spain and Italy. In those countries, private clinics and hospitals typically don't have the equipment and staff to deal with the more complicated cases, so if you want to do better than the state system, you need to get on a plane to the U.S. At least that's what everyone tells me. I hope I never have to find out for myself.

p> WHAT, ME HURRY? br> Re: Peter Hannaford's Speed Limits : /p>

It was with great pleasure that my eyes fell upon Peter Hannaford's spot on "Speed Limits" this morning. I am fast coming up on my half-century mark and the sentiments expressed in this piece resonate strongly. When I moved back to the Washington area I made up my mind that I would live in Arlington, work downtown, and use the subway and shank's mare for my mode of transit. How refreshing to walk out of one's building down into Metro and then to one's office and not take the jitney out of the garage sometimes for weeks on end (especially in the wintertime when the golf clubs have been stored away).

I also second Mr. Hannaford's thinking when it comes to loud bars and restaurants. Although still a bachelor bon vivant, I have decidedly much less use for the trendy "meet" markets and instead favor the more low key neighborhood joints. Washington is full of wannabes, gonnabes, thinktheyares and other such species of specious hustlers. I genuinely feel sorry for folks who have to mingle with these people on a professional basis.

p>Now, if someone could just do something about the idiots running up and down Metro's escalators leaving the elderly and disabled disheveled and sometimes injured in their wake we'd be on to something. People in a hurry to go nowhere -- a Washington tradition par excellence. br> -- Bill Harrison br> Arlington, VA /p> p>

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