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Should we stop making tall buildings? Jonah Goldberg: Exploiting a nuclear climate of fear - latimes.com

Few skyscrapers in the United States can withstand a 9.0 earthquake — should we stop making tall buildings? The lesson here just might be that the earthquake proved the system worked, not that it failed.
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Calm is the need of the moment, cool heads should prevail.

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