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...argument that parents should just turn off the TV or radio. "It isn't necessarily what we keep our kids from," he says, "but our inability to keep other kids from certain material, who then share it with our kids in school and elsewhere. It's like dumping toxic waste in a playground...
...Nelson Mandela once said "true reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past." On the contrary, reconciliation requires an exhumation of the past, an examination of the evidence, a making of amends, and then a slow processing of injustices until they gain the status of less toxic history. And of all the great nations of the world, there is none with so large a reserve of undigested, poisoned history than China. Think of the killing of 1 million landlords, the Hundred Flowers Movement, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Think of Tiananmen, and the repeated ideological cashiering...
...internal memo from the World Bank said to be authored by Summers is leaked to the Economist. The memo, which advocates dumping toxic waste into third world countries, draws fire from environmentalist groups and politicians in Washington...
...watch his mouth, treat people with sensitivity, and approach potential controversy with caution. Never again would Summers allow himself to be caught with his name next to anything like the “infamous World Bank memo,” a leaked internal document about the dumping of toxic waste that made him an army of enemies back...
...think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that,” the note continued, adding that “under-populated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted” and that “their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low [sic] compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City...