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Story behind a maple syrup bottle

As a maple syrup devotee (nothing less than the real thing on my pancakes), I ate up your April 23 & 30 cover story, 鈥�Maple Syrup Inc.鈥� I say keep the consumer prices high enough to benefit all producers, large and small.

I guess Canada鈥檚 鈥淕lobal Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve鈥� is a cartel worth its barrel weight. Viva Quebec!

Greg Palmer

Seattle

Changing technology for research

Regarding the June 11 OneWeek story 鈥�When humanities meets big data鈥�: My late sister-in-law working on her PhD in the 1950s analyzed an author鈥檚 writings manually since there were no computers that were capable of doing so at the time. I remember it was arduous and time-consuming. She used hundreds of three-by-five cards.

Robert Hallam

Speedway, Ind.

Top book releases

Regarding the May 21 article 鈥�10 best books of May鈥�: Wow! That鈥檚 nine out of 10 must reads for me! I don鈥檛 have time to read books hardly at all, though I鈥檓 reading all the time. I鈥檓 almost resentful that I can鈥檛 just drop everything and take these books and have a reading vacation.

Thanks for the list and the explanations.

Brenda Krachenberg

Plymouth, Mich.

Puerto Ricans after Maria

I found the May 14 cover story 鈥�The mothers saving Puerto Rico,鈥� about Puerto Ricans working to help others after hurricane Maria, very inspiring. We on the mainland could learn so much about caring and helping our neighbors from those volunteers. And the blessings for the volunteers are so great as well. Thank you for this reporting.

Patricia Breedlove

Oakhurst, N.J.