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Mar. 19th, 2011 07:21 amA Price Too High?
By BOB HERBERT
Published: March 18, 2011
By BOB HERBERT
Published: March 18, 2011
Catastrophes happen.
No one thought the Interstate 35W bridge across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis would collapse. No one thought the Gulf of Mexico would be fouled to the horrible extent that it was by the BP oil spill. The awful convergence of disasters in Japan — a 9.0 earthquake followed by a tsunami and a devastating nuclear power emergency — seemed almost unimaginable. More