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Terrorist groups acting openly under Arafat's protection proudly send young men into Israel to kill and maim. One suicide bomber murders 21 innocent youths at a Tel Aviv discotheque. Another chooses a Jerusalem pizzeria densely packed with young families, killing 15 and horribly maiming dozens of others with nails embedded in the bomb for precisely that purpose...
...didn?t call the police, although in retrospect I wish I had. That spectacular imbecile may have gone on to kill or maim - and while I am not sure the North Carolina highway patrol would have been particularly sympathetic to my self-righteous outrage, I like to think a carefully-considered complaint might have made a difference...
Thank you for the articles depicting alternative therapies in the positive light they deserve [INNOVATORS, April 16]. In response to the conventional, antiquated medical model in which doctors are always demanding more scientific data and often prescribing procedures and medications that kill or maim, people have come to recognize there is more than one paradigm for healing and thus more than one choice for health care. What if medical practitioners and alternative practitioners learned from one another in kind? There might be hope for a health-care system that needs to heal itself from within! STEPHANIE RAFFELOCK Boulder, Colo...
...South Dakota, where we had the same percentage of bullies and nasty young people as anywhere else. We also had easy access to guns. My family had four or five firearms in the house, including a pistol. Yet no one thought of using these guns to kill or maim a fellow student. There are some new factors at play, and until we understand them, we will be contributing to the continuation of these terrible events by providing a straw man for the politicians to pontificate against. ED HALLENBECK Murrieta, Calif...
...Wonder Woman, made me a feminist. Ms. Bionic (Lindsay Wagner), the original Sporty Spice, called her fan club an "action club," and one Halloween I went as Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter) because she was a little girl's dress-up dream: she wore jewelry, but her magical bracelets could maim...