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Suicide bombers escape the harsh reality of dealing with life in this world: hunger, death of loved ones, frustration and tears. They don't see the carnage they cause or the grieving relatives of the victims. Instead, the bombers get a free ticket out of the world, leaving anguish behind them. How nice for them. But they are cowards. The heroes are those who stay and help others...
Your article on the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission ((Space, Nov. 29)) called the satellite a ''$1.6 billion disappointment that has kept astronomers in anguish since it was launched three years ago.'' In fact, the Hubble telescope has opened up new horizons for astronomy, allowing scientists to peer farther into the depths of space and more closely at nearby stars and galaxies than ever before. Whether the value of pure science is enough to justify the Hubble's cost is certainly a matter for debate, but the value of Hubble to astronomy is irrefutable...
...turn toward suicide bombings has come at a moral cost. In his conversations with TIME, al-Tamimi initially gave no signs of any internal anguish over sending young men off on suicide missions. "What I do serves my country, and what they do serves my country," he said. But he grew uncomfortable when the discussion turned to the victims of suicide bombings: scores of innocent Iraqis have died in terrorist attacks perpetrated by men whom al-Tamimi openly boasts to have trained. "I have always tried to avoid civilian casualties," he says. "I always try to attack the American military...
...Home Only those who have lost a loved one can appreciate what Cindy Sheehan, the American antiwar activist whose son was killed in Iraq, is going through [Aug. 22]. Nothing takes away the pain. The anguish a mother feels when she loses a child is different from the loss that surviving brothers and sisters feel. Sheehan has done her best for Casey, her soldier son; she did not fail him in any way. But I implore her to heed the plea of her other son Andy: to go back home because she is needed there to support her children...
...education should be on understanding society and its problems—a little bit of disinterested study certainly can never hurt, and this is probably one of our last opportunities for it. I am not saying we should spend every minute of our four years here in guilt-ridden anguish over how we, “to whom much has been given,” must ourselves give back. What I am saying is that we as students have a serious responsibility to give a good deal of thought while we are here to what our social obligations...