02.20.2009 9:09 am

America the risky and reckless

By Editorial Board

PHOTO BY JERRY NAUNHEIM JR

Editor’s note: This item originally ran on Feb. 7.

Quiz yourself: Play “The Game of Risk.”

http://www.stltoday.com/mds/news/html/2202

Americans are a reckless people, flouting death with casual aplomb. Risk flows in our blood.

We drained malarial swamps to dig the Panama Canal.

We…

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10.06.2008 11:30 pm

MINK column: At risk in America — You’re the one carrying the load.

By Eric Mink

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

You know that vague, shapeless worry that never quite goes away? That sense that the things you count on for your security and that of your family — your spouse, your children, your brothers, sisters and parents — aren’t quite solid?

It…

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America the risky and reckless

MINK column: At risk in America — You’re the one carrying the load.

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