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"Goodnight Moon" -- now safer than ever

Stop the presses! Jeers prompt HarperCollins to change its mind -- sort of -- about airbrushing the cigarette out of the children's classic.

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  • Wednesday, December 7, 2005 07:32 AM

    Duh

    The first thing that crossed my mind when I heard this (well, the second, after making the mental note not to hold a freebasing pipe in any future publicity pictures) was, don't they have another picture of the guy somewhere they can use?

    Actually, it was the first thing that my wife said, too.

    And my best friend.

    The hypersensitivity doesn't bother me so much as the perceived need to apply a high-tech solution to a low-tech problem, sort of like the guy in the next cube who IMs instead of talking to you. But some things are actually still easier to do without the help of computers, so long as the one in one's head is still operating.

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