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...tending the walking wounded. Doctors, nurses, EMTs, even lifeguards, were recruited to help. Volunteers with the least training were diverted to blood-donation centers or the dreaded "black teams," where they would not be called upon to save a life, just handle dead bodies during triage. The color code: black for dead, red for immediately life-threatening wounds, yellow for serious, non-life threatening and green for the walking wounded. Police and fire fighters realized even as they worked that hundreds of their colleagues, the first to respond, were dead. Each looked as if someone had kicked...
...agree that poverty is caused by a combination of social, structural and personal factors. But why are children being punished for the irresponsible decisions of their parents? And more important, why are children’s chances in the land of the American dream determined more by their zip code than by their character, intelligence or ability...
...environment for minorities at Harvard theater is not very friendly,” says HRDC member Kimberly J. Ravener ’03. “[The theater community] tends to be a very small, tight-knit group of people, which can also be a code word for incestuous, so it’s just not as established to have diversity in HRDC...
...disagree that the information highway had a "construction error" exploited by the authors of the Code Red virus [TECHNOLOGY, Aug. 20]. The fundamental structure of the Internet was not the problem in this case. It was Microsoft's error that resulted in a security hole. Perhaps it is time that Microsoft stop focusing on swallowing yet another segment of the electronics market and instead make sure its 300 million-plus current customers will have secure, uncompromised computers when they wake up tomorrow. ABE JELLINEK Newton, Mass...
...school season, teenagers are pining for racy duds. And why not? It's all they see in the media. A JC PENNEY AD, in which a mom helps her daughter yank down her jeans to show more midriff, was itself yanked after parental complaints. Other fronts in the dress-code...