1.   It is impossible to look at the grotesquely shattered remains of the Oklahoma City Federal building without wondering whether such bombings will become a brutal commonplace of American life.

2.   It may be difficult to believe, but nightly bombings soon became routine, just another part of daily life.

3.   Since then, bombings have become increasingly common across the nation.

4.   The first desecration perverts the truth about how the bombings became possible.

5.   When the bombing became a nightly event, after a while terror gave way to numbness.

6.   Anderton told rank-and-file members the legislators would withdraw their backing for the U.S.-led war if the bombings became indiscriminate or were clearly not aimed at combating terrorism.

7.   Bombings are becoming increasingly common in China, where private ownership of firearms is illegal but explosives used for mining or construction are readily available.

8.   Bombings have become more common in this former Soviet republic in recent years, but have not appeared to be politically motivated.

9.   Bombings have become a routine tactic.

10.   Bombings have become an almost weekly occurrence in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the three former Soviet republics in the Baltics.