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...artists and entertainment companies aim to be tasteful, the danger is that relevant work will suffer too. In the 1,213-station Clear Channel Communications radio network, an internal e-mail circulated last week listing more than 150 songs deemed possibly too sensitive to be played during this period, among them Peter, Paul and Mary's Leaving on a Jet Plane. (Clear Channel contends the list was unofficial and did not ban any songs outright.) USA Network canceled an airing of the 1998 movie The Siege, a serious look at anti-Arab bigotry and paranoia after terrorist attacks...
...commendable. Yet it also highlights one of the major temptations lawmakers will face as they confront the financial costs of stabilizing the airline industry. The economic aftershocks of the Sept. 11 attack will be widespread; in addition to the airline industry, tourism, insurance and shipping are also sure to suffer substantial losses. Congress cannot identify, let alone compensate, every company harmed by the attack and every worker laid off as a result. Instead, it should focus its efforts on preventing widespread bankruptcies in industries vital to the nation’s economy. The airlines present an immediate risk...
PTSD has been around as long as human traumas have, but it's only recently that experts have truly understood it. People with PTSD suffer repeated nightmares and flashbacks. They may sometimes feel emotionally flattened and at other times be given to outbursts. They become compulsively watchful, and some may begin dulling all these feelings with alcohol or drugs. Left alone, PTSD can become completely disabling. Treatment with a trained therapist, however, can be marvelously straightforward. Reliving the experiences in a controlled way--by talking about them, calling them up and laying them bare--strips them of their power...
...planned meeting between Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres, and those Labor Party ministers who want the meeting to go ahead. But it's not clear where Sharon himself stands - whether he's unhappy at the prospect of an Arafat-Peres meeting, or whether he's simply making Arafat suffer a little in order to get the meeting...
...solution is for the U.S. government to offer a training program that provides a better understanding of Japanese culture and language. Beyond that, anyone who commits rape should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. At the same time, anyone who falsely accuses someone of rape should suffer the same fate as a convicted rapist. Then people would think twice about making such charges. RAY FERNANDEZ Okinawa...