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p> GOVERNMENT PARADISO br> Re: Brandon Crocker's A Paradise Mandated the Government : /p> p>I just sat down yesterday with the issue of National Geographic that Mr. Crocker writes about and began laughing when I read the item about maternity leave. (Oh, sorry, I forgot that this was no laughing matter.) Steeling myself against the additional political correctness that was sure to come, my jaw fell to the floor when later in the issue they ran an article about the folly of rebuilding New Orleans and not once did they mention George W. Bush! Everyone knows that he was behind the levees failing. Even when the article threw in the global warming scare as yet another reason not to rebuild New Orleans, George W. Bush's name was again omitted even though he, of course, is responsible for global warming. So, Mr. Crocker, I'll have to give National Geographic a pass on the maternity leave item especially since they probably just lost half of their subscriptions by allowing such a pro-George Bush piece through. One question: Does National Geographic give its employees 52 weeks of paid maternity leave? If not, I hope they'll at least give the staff member responsible for the New Orleans piece a nice severance package. br> -- Andrew Macfadyen, M.D.

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