Re "Exploring Choices for M.S".
Re "Exploring Mental Illness and Battling Her Own" (Commentary, Jan . 31: The column states that Lucy Freeman, a reporter and writer, "thought that there was nothing wrong with being crazy".
Re "Exploring the Health Benefits of Pets" (Oct . 6: For families of autistic children who cannot have a service dog, an alternative model involves working with a psychologist who has a certified therapy dog.
Re "Exploring the Flaws in the Notion of the 'Root Causes' of Terror" (Arts & Ideas pages, Nov. 17): Edward Rothstein is right to question simplistic theorizing about the "root causes" of terrorism.
Re "Exploring Ways to Shorten the Ascent to a Ph.D.," by Joseph Berger (On Education column, Oct. 3): As an anthropology graduate student beginning his eighth year, I would like to thank you for your article about how some United States colleges and universities are beginning to re-evaluate the dissertation process.
As well, due to time considerations, we re-explored only RM while a more rigorous result would require the re-exploration of FM as well.
But the man/woman thing is being re-explored.
Yet, more than 40 years later, Amida's design and concept has been resuscitated and re-explored in MB&F's new model, the HM5 "On the Road Again".
In the 1990s Greek and foreign researchers re-explored the network of military roads and watchtowers in eastern Crete that Evans had chosen to ignore.
Walcott's familiar themes of an island idyll blighted by colonialism were re-explored, though this time the poet said he reworked the poetic dialogue to become "more conversational".
In more recent works not recorded here he has re-explored serial and chance techniques, used a computer to process his own trumpet playing and, in his orchestral Fourth Symphony (1995), saucily appropriated Brahms's Fourth as grist for collage technique.
