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Certain omissions make sense for the coming weeks, but erasing the towers from the movies and network television may in the long term do more harm than good. The American public is about as likely to forget this attack as it is the explosion of the Challenger, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ’40, or the event to which this attack has been most frequently compared, the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor. Eliminating the World Trade Center from all upcoming films and non-news TV programs won’t cause anyone to forget the pain...
WALKER WATCH The 3 million walkers that American parents buy for their infants each year may do more harm than good, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, which has recommended banning their manufacture and sale. There is no evidence that the devices help infants learn to walk independently; on the contrary, doctors say, they can delay normal motor development and cause serious injury and even death. In 1999, 8,800 children under age 15 months were treated in U.S. emergency rooms for injuries associated with walkers...
...Omen NATO scientists are developing a grenade that uses nonpolluting explosives. It will still kill and maim people, but do less harm to the ground when it detonates...
...terrorism is certainly stern and unyielding, but isn’t this the appropriate response to barbarous, senseless acts of mass destruction? The Israelis are pragmatic above all else; constant threats to its national sovereignty have given Israel a clear, unambiguous need to eliminate all those who would do harm against its citizens...
...waiting right now - this ten-year boom started when the tanks rolled onto Kuwaiti soil, and starting it again will take a psychological sense that the U.S. has its enemies in its sights, its political will galvanized, and its thinking cap on about how not to do more harm than good...