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In response to the Feb. 21 column "Border problem needs saint's help."

I agree, Saint Jude needs to help Mexico. The biggest problem in Mexico is overpopulation, and the biggest booster of that is the Catholic Church. Saint Jude could make them see their rules about birth control are causing untold misery in Mexico. Misery that's so bad some risk their lives to cross a border to find work.

Mexico is not a poor country. They have many mines that produce many minerals, they have oil wells off the coast that produce oil for the entire country, and they have beautiful cities and tourist attractions along their miles of seashores, but they have too many people.

I know many good Catholics. The administration refuses to mend its ways and think about what happens to the people they insist must be born. This is where Saint Jude comes in. Who else would they listen to?

Colleen Germain

During the past few months, protesters posed this question to Reid Park Zoo visitors: "Would you like to see our elephants have a larger area in which to roam?"

They had no difficulty obtaining signatures, including children, as zoo guests believed they were helping our elephants obtain a larger exhibit, not sending them to an elephant sanctuary that only accepts females and keeps African and Asian species separated.

Connie accepted Shaba and immediately became her mother. They have an incredible bond and must not be broken.

Bette Milne

Mary Matalin's rationalization of Vice President Dick Cheney's behavior after he shot his friend while hunting called my attention to a disconcerting trait Cheney and President George W. Bush share but that has been overlooked by the media.

Both Bush and Cheney have acted like deer in headlights at a time of crises when events called for a show of strength and wisdom. Everyone probably still remembers Bush returning to read to an elementary school class after he learned of the Sept. 11 tragedy. Now, Matalin explains Cheney was so unnerved after the shooting that he, in effect, froze and failed to immediately tell the world of his misdeed or immediately go to his wounded friend's side at the hospital.

How can we feel confident our nation's leader and the person a heartbeat away from him, who hold our nation's security in their hands, have the capacity to show strength and wisdom to protect all of us should a tragic event require their prompt action?

Mort Ganeles

The Olympic motto Citius, Altius, Fortius means swifter, higher, stronger. This supposes then that everything in the Olympics can and should be measured to that standard.

Get rid of all the events that require a subjective score. And while at it, any event that involves music, taffeta, chiffon or sequins is not a sport.

Benn Isaacman

I saw the Fox Theatre for the first time since its renovation recently and it brought back many fond memories. I had spent many days there seeing the likes of "Cat Ballou" and "How the West Was Won."

Imagine my surprise when the feature on the marquee recently was "The Vagina Monologues." Tucson already has a theater with that kind of venue. It is called The Loft. Way to go, Tucson, you hit another homer.

Brian Edwards

For my part, the president can spy on anyone he wants, any way he wants, any time he wants. I need to know nothing.

It just makes me feel snug as a bug in a rug to know that little guy on that big white horse is onto the evildoers like stink on a boot.

Charles Scarlott

In response to the Feb. 17 article "Herbalife showing signs of health."

Thank you so much for this positive article on Herbalife. We have been Herbalife distributors for 15 years living and working in Tucson, representing what we feel are the most advanced nutritional supplements in the world today.

Kay and Brian Wilson

In response to the Feb. 22 article "Expert: Asthma-drug warning being blown off."

I was concerned when I read the article about the danger involved in taking Advair and similar medications.

I've had asthma for many years. When my doctor switched me to the Advair disk, my lung function went from 75 percent to 110 percent of normal. The combined benefits of the Serevent and Flovent in the Advair disk have enormously improved my health.

Patients should not discontinue taking this medication without talking to their doctors first. I'm afraid we're in for a rash of emergency hospital admissions since this Food and Drug Administration warning came out.

Donna Lail

For millions of years, America was the evolutionary home of three different families of elephants: mammoths, mastodons and gomphotheres. These families disappeared suddenly and mysteriously thousands of years ago. Details of the extinction event are still under investigation.

Whatever the cause of proboscidean extinction in the Americas, there should be enough public and/or private land in the West to establish a sizable reserve for elephants.

Surely within the western United States and northern Mexico, there is space for an appropriate reserve for free-ranging elephants. Why not restore what Arizona and the West lost quite recently, as geologists measure the time scale? The wild West of a few centuries ago is tame compared with the wilder West of some 13 millennia ago.

Dare we dream of an American elephant reserve somewhere in this region, for example, between Tucson, Phoenix, Flagstaff, Albuquerque, El Paso and/or Hermosillo?

Paul Martin

In response to the Feb. 12 editorial "Incentive pact with developer a winning plan."

There are many misconceptions being circulated by the opposition of the subject development and the passage of Proposition 2 on the Oro Valley voting ballot. Without passage of this second question, the Oro Valley Marketplace will not happen.

Opponents are saying the development is just a glorified strip mall. How many strip malls have a four-lane, landscaped loop road for the improvement of traffic flow? How many strip malls have a water-harvesting system that will conserve water? How many strip malls include natural area open space within the project itself?

The Oro Valley General Plan calls for the site to be used for exactly what is planned. The plan has had unanimous approval of both the Development Review Board and Town Council. I urge the voters of Oro Valley to vote yes to question two on their ballot.

Henry Sheetz

Retired, Oro Valley

It's not surprising that the Feb. 21 "Elephants belong at Reid Park, national zoo association agrees" guest column by Kristin L. Vehrs, executive director of the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, doesn't address the crisis facing elephants in American Zoo and Aquarium Association zoos across the country.

Instead she tries to distract the public from the tragedy afflicting elephants in zoos and attacks those trying to help the elephants.

Vehrs' position ignores the science and facts that show elephants in zoos are prematurely dying at roughly half their natural lifespan due to well-known health problems caused by American Zoo and Aquarium Association zoo conditions.

Vehrs and the zoo industry know sanctuaries have success in curing many of these captivity-induced physical and psychological health problems. The Reid Park Zoo's expansion will not provide nearly enough space for elephants. Please send the elephants to the elephant sanctuary.

Deniz Bolbol

Redwood City, Calif.