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...down with particular force on the Northeastern states: Public health facilities across New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia are dealing with a massive influx of patients suffering from a Sydney strain of influenza, this year's main culprit; a crop of other, non-flu viruses is also to blame for the crowded...
...with the fact that India released convicted anti-Indian terrorists after negotiations with the hijackers of Indian Airlines Flight IC 814. Then other U.N.-member nations joined in, angered by the precedent India set by caving. So Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Monday tried to lay the blame on arch-nemesis Pakistan, saying the Pakistani government trained the hijackers and is now harboring them. But like every move India's made since the hijacking, the accusations backfired, and now both the domestic press and foreign media are decrying Vajpayee's accusations as unfounded...
What draws us close are accidents--catastrophes to which we attempt to assign blame or affix explanations but which we know intuitively to be inexplicable. In the past year, a teacher and 12 schoolchildren were shot down by schoolchildren in Colorado; 12 people died building a bonfire in Texas; six fire fighters died fighting a blaze in a warehouse in Massachusetts; six Marines and a Navy man fell to their death in a helicopter exercise off the coast of San Diego. Our insistently enlightened minds leap to "solve" such things, but their effect on our spirits has more...
...that my years in public school didn't change me, but the other students certainly tried to do so. If they had succeeded--who knows? Maybe I would have gone the way of Harris and Klebold. The student abusers are trying to cover up their actions and shift the blame to someone else. That makes them very nearly as bad as the horrible young Columbine killers. SPENCER M. LEASE Medford, Mass...
...scientists who realized the implications of this persuaded Einstein to overcome his pacifist scruples and write a letter to President Roosevelt urging the U.S. to start a program of nuclear research. This led to the Manhattan Project and the atom bomb that exploded over Hiroshima in 1945. Some people blame the atom bomb on Einstein because he discovered the relation between mass and energy. But that's like blaming Newton for the gravity that causes airplanes to crash. Einstein took no part in the Manhattan Project and was horrified by the explosion...