EDITORIAL: A Spring Without Voices
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By The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 24--The bicentennial of Rachel Carson's birth is barely a month past and her shocking fantasy of a world without birds seems to be coming true.   It's not pesticides that are at fault; Ms. Carson was very effective in banning their use.
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By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post Staff Writer
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Switzerland is famous for its neutrality. It sat out both world wars. It's a refuge for international finance.
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A popular weekly recently had one-quarter of its stories rejected out of hand. Editors don't ask why.
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Jay Evensen, in one of his typically lucid, thoughtful columns (Sept. 3), pointed out that free speech means nothing if no one listens. Last week in Salt Lake City we had a virtual "free speech festival" that never drew the attention of those whom they most hoped to influence.
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By The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Sep. 15--It is tempting to hurl rhetorical firebombs at a political system that fails to protect homeowners from fireworks damage just because they live in unincorporated areas. And to scorch the S.C.
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By Seth Freedland, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun.
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Comment is free: Jonathan Steele: The EU must not relent to the siren voices who oppose the territory's path to independence.
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By John M. Tierney  For Rachel Carson admirers, it has not been a silent spring. They have been celebrating the centennial of her birthday with paeans to her saintliness. A new generation is reading her book in school - and mostly learning the wrong lesson from it.
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In diplomacy, silence can speak as loudly as the noisiest protest. When Israel announced plans to build 1,001 new homes in the West Bank, the silence from Washington echoed around the Middle East like a rifle shot.
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It'll be spring before you know it &#151; and maybe even before the calendar does &#151; if fashion designers have anything to say about it.
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By John Jeansonne, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Feb. 18--Spring training really is a show about nothing much, its true baseball merit apparent only when one factors in the mid-February wind chill on fans in the North and Northeast.
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I read the March 4 story "Water woes" about Rhode Island's problems with fresh water with great interest. My view on this issue may be oversimplified, but there was no mention of harnessing the state's greatest resource, our proximity to the ocean.
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KERRY O&#39;BRIEN: Reading the electorate&#39;s mood has been no easy matter since the Latham ascendancy. And voters rarely seem to show their true intent these days until an election campaign is in full swing.
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A little less conversation and a little more action
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By Roger Petterson  It's getting to be time to plan your spring break, not a wild college student party but something for the family, an excuse to head south to overindulge in food that makes you think of warmer weather, to be outdoors without your parka and mittens.
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By Chloe Morrison, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Jun. 18--LAFAYETTE, Ga.