Do you want Cuba, with its universal health care, or the United States of America, with its uneven distribution of wealth? Or Europe, with its high unemployment rate?Even if you have a good two way radio, it isn't bad to have some kind of …

I was washing the car in the driveway one Saturday in June of 1990 as Dad made a careful, final pass around some landscaping stones. The mower was too loud for either of us to hear the phone ring, but at some point we both noticed Mom talk…