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Suing companies for crimes such as over-production could cause widespread harm, especially considering America's penchant for allowing liability lawsuits to spin out of control. (Remember the woman who won $1 million from McDonald's because she spilled hot coffee on her lap while driving and then blamed it on the container?) None of us look forward to a world in which Hostess would have to make sure that the public consumed only a healthy number of Twinkies...
...course, this exaggerated scenario may not occur. After all, guns are different from all other legally produced products in their ability to harm individuals, but the bottom line is that successful lawsuits are not adequate replacements for law, and we should not become so excited by monetary compensation that we become complacent in our pursuit of better legislation...
...long as it doesn't do any damage, what's the harm in giving even mildly distracted or willful kids a pharmaceutical boost? For one thing, doctors say, there is still some concern about side effects, such as decreased appetite, insomnia or the development of tics. "A very small percentage of children treated at high doses have hallucinogenic responses," the NIH experts concluded, arguing that more research is needed to shape guidelines for doctors and parents. For many families, of course, such risks seem a small price to pay for the enormous relief Ritalin can offer...
...about what happened during the crucial "perfect summer, awful summer," includes characters with dubious importance to the plot and tells the reader too much about them. This is Ray ostensibly talking about Jill Thompson, one of his eighth grade teachers and a character which could be eliminated with no harm to the book: "She used to play cribbage with us kids...[including] Jane Ellwey...Jane got killed in a car crash after the homecoming game my junior year...Lots of people died in cars out on those back roads over the years. I generally try to be real careful, especially...
...lies deeply imbedded in the cultural psyche, doctors say health problems should not be a concern. Dr. Christopher M. Coley, a physician from UHS, cites a case from the New England Journal of Medicine in which a jogger suffered frostbite of the penis, as the only documented example of harm from inadequate dressing. "Wearing less than optimal clothing can put you at risk for frostbite, but there is no real proof to support that [wearing shorts is dangerous]," Coley says. He also points out that some communities in Russia even expose their children to the cold in order to give...