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...First Lady Hillary Clinton has made frequent, if muted, denunciations of media vulgarity, and now seems to be turning up the volume, most recently in her appearance on Oprah. And sandwiched into Bill Clinton's long State of the Union message in January was a plea to Hollywood "to assess the impact of your work and to understand the damage that comes from the incessant, repetitive, mindless violence and irresponsible conduct that permeates our media all the time...
...sense, it is natural that we worry irrationally -- that we are terrified by images of Americans "just like us" dying violently. The human mind evolved to assess and address risk on the basis of such images. But that's because during human evolution, before television, such images did reflect risk-local risk. Further galvanizing us is the fact that bombings are intentional; aspiring bombers are out there somewhere, to be stopped. Death by traffic mishap, in contrast, has no plan, no perpetrator. It seems the inexorable working of fate or chance, and we accept each year's statistics...
Outside the building other doctors and paramedics had set up triage stations, including four surgical units in a nearby warehouse, to assess the injuries and get help for the most grievously wounded. Area hospitals meanwhile launched their emergency plans, clearing out as many patients as they could to make room for the casualties. Within hours 100 volunteer doctors had shown up at St. Anthony, the hospital closest to the scene. Fifteen members of Boy Scout Troop 120 arrived to help with blood collection...
Most memos sent to the departments to assess feelings on grade inflation have not yet been returned, meaning that the subject will be addressed again next fall and no action will be taken this year...
...loss was only slightly simpler to assess...