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(Brooklyn Bridge Park - View toward Brooklyn Bridge) What have we become that our litigious culture - safety over savvy, suitful superfluousity over fun, and fretful fear over friendly frolicking - continues to abandon personal responsibility and drives us further toward the removal of opportunities for learning and fun from our play environments? (Stainless Steel Play Domes) Bloody noses and tales of thermal torment have graced the front pages of many a publication recently, over the highly anticipated but recently relegated opening of Brooklyn Bridge Park . "They should take them out and put in something like a jungle gym, remember those?". Yes, we remember those, along with monkey bars, see-saws, and backyard ravines - all exciting, playful, may I say daring memories of being a child. Our human fallibility's of short-term memory  prevent us from recalling a chipped tooth, a painful laceration, even a broken bone. Many of these were acquired not from innocuous pla...