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...bomb on Hiroshima 50 years ago and brought World War II to an end. Eight people unfurled banners from the second floor balcony above the main entrance to the museum, some shouting, "Never again! Never again!" They also threw pamphlets down at people entering the museum. Smithsonian Secretary Michael Heyman revised the exhibit -- which originally included graphic depictions of the damage and deaths caused by the bomb -- five times to satisfy congressional critics and outraged veterans' groups. Today, he said: "This is the Enola Gay. It dropped the bomb that ended the war . It doesn't take a position...
...houses away, a new widow sits and watches the visitors making their way through town. Her husband, she quietly admits, also helped take care of the sick family. Then he died. She buried his body, but the mattress where he lay sick is still in the house. Dr. David Heyman of the World Health Organization listens to her story, and his heart sinks. He knows as much about the lethal Ebola virus as anyone alive; he was part of the team that investigated the first recorded outbreak, also in Zaire, two decades ago. Now he is leading the international brigade...
...year-old lab technician named Kimfumu, who died at Kikwit's main hospital last month. But once they discovered the case of the woman infected even earlier at the Kikwit 2 maternity hospital, they realized the crisis was worse than they had imagined. "It's a huge epidemic," Heyman says of the previously unrecorded cases, "and it's got nothing to do with the main hospital." By week's end who doctors had counted 97 Ebola deaths, and the toll seemed certain to rise much higher. The only good news was that the disease had not yet spread...
Last week Smithsonian secretary Michael Heyman did exactly that. No doubt alarmed by the fact that 81 Congressmen had written in protest and that hearings were being planned on this exhibit and perhaps other trash-America exhibits at Smithsonian museums, he announced that Air and Space would display the Enola Gay with only a simple explanation of its mission and a video memoir of the crew...
...victory for good sense. It was marred, however, by the way Heyman justified the cancellation. He claimed that in principle it was a mistake to combine a historical commemoration with historical analysis. This in itself is a dubious proposition, but Heyman compounded the damage with his elaboration that "veterans and their families ... were not looking for analysis, and, frankly, we did not give enough thought to the intense feelings such an analysis would evoke...