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From a Globe article:

"Half the World Trade Center casualties are happening every year in our colleges," said one researcher, Mark Goldman, a psychology professor at the University of South Florida.

So yeah, we now have a convenient, higher-resolution unit for measuring people getting killed in amounts smaller than the familiar wartime battles, bombings and atrocities usually cited in such comparisons.@whee

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i read that too, and i thought there was something to say about it but i couldn't figure out what it was.
my reaction was something along the lines of, "well. ain't that some shit."

referring to something as "half the world trade center casualties" doesn't seem that compelling to me anyway. 1500 is not a lot of people, it's just a lot of people to die at one time. spread out over a year and over the whole country? small potatoes. i think that quote was both transparent and shameless. tasteless perhaps too, i haven't decided.