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...Maybe," she says. "If it does, that's not all bad. We are more than the bombing, of course, and more that this little park. But the memorial is a sign that we have not forgotten and will never forget. And it has real uses. The young people who come here--I hope it makes them realize how dangerous the militias...
...adds that it is important that all this complexity be a product of a slow, painstaking process. "The language of 'healing' and 'closure,'" he says, "is the obscene language of forgetfulness." Yet he also says the effect of the new memorials is to make one both remember and forget. The Murrah Building wall and the shell of the Journal Record newspaper building behind the Survivor Tree were deliberately preserved to recall the destructiveness, the ugliness, of the bombing. Without them, the memorial would look solely like a pastoral landscape--soothing and quietly evocative, yet minus clues that something terrible...
...imaging tests. Call me cynical, but in this era of managed care, I can't help noticing how that income stream also serves to pay for a lot of very expensive equipment. I'm more concerned, though, that some folks might consider a "clean" CT scan an excuse to forget about doing the things that we know improve health, like quitting smoking, shedding excess pounds or exercising more...
...Forget the Jurassic period: If you want to see giants roaming the earth, just check out your paper's business section. We're talking mergers, of course, and the latest loomed large on Thursday with Justice Department trustbusters' approval of AT&T's acquisition of cable giant MediaOne, a corporate marriage that will create America's largest cable provider. If the other regulatory body involved, the Federal Communications Commission, gives AT&T the nod, the corporation will have successfully transformed itself from an old-school telephone giant into a high-tech force to be reckoned with - and will have done...
...chief. "While the Lagos government is quite happy to see the courts going after the former dictator, a few weeks ago the heads of the different branches of the armed forces met with Pinochet to publicly offer their support. While a substantial part of the military would like to forget Pinochet and move on, there are still elements who believe what the dictatorship did was necessary to root out communists." But even if they growl a little, Chile's generals are not expected to bite. "Short of overthrowing the government again, which they're very unlikely to attempt, the military...