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A Pew poll last year found that only 34% of Americans expected today’s children to be better off than people are now, down from 55% eight years ago. And only 21% believe the country is on the right track, compared with twice that figure in 2004. The US is in pessimistic mood. Not good for …
Some people seem to consider themselves morally and ethically superior when they boast that "they tell it as it is", and say exactly what they think, without a moment’s thought for the other person. Far from being superior, they are being self-indulgent and smug. The civilized person tries not to hurt other people’s feelings and …
“….The terrorists cannot win; they can only hope to terrorize us into forgetting who we are, so that we become the belligerent, blundering Goliath of their florid rhetoric. In this war , killing and capturing fanatics is necessary, but not sufficient; we cannot hope to kill or capture all of them. We secure our safety …
In 1980 People with college degrees made on average 30 per cent more than those with only high school diplomas. Today that disparity has widened to 70 per cent. in the case of higher degrees there is a gap of 100 per cent between those with advanced degrees and those with only high school diplomas. …
A study quoted in the Guardian Weekly (October 26th) shows that an 18-hole golf course requires, on average, 22 tonnes of chemical treatments (mostly pesticides) every year, seven times the rate per hectare for industrial farming. Another survey shows higher rates of some cancers, such as non-Hodgkins lymphoma, (associated with certain pesticides) among golf course …
