AIDS orphans
There are between 13 and 15 million children in the world who have been orphaned by AIDS, a gigantic pool of potential recruits for criminal gangs and militias.
Archive of posts filed under the The way we live now category.
Lifestyle topics
Multi-tasking is un-Epicurean
Where I live it is illegal to talk on the cellphone while driving, (and all the more illegal to snap shots with a camera phone while traveling at 40 miles an hour). But people do it, taking their eyes off the road and endangering all in sight. On a recent taxi ride that lasted 20 …
Allergies
About one third of the UK population will develop an allergy of some sort during the course of their lives . Allergic diseases have trebled in the last 20 years. There are a number of suspects, including pollution in the air, industrially processed foods and coloring additives. This was not a problem in the time …
Northern Rock
Northern Rock is a British bank, mainly a savings bank. Recently it suffered a run which would have bankrupted it had not the Bank of England come to the rescue, fearful of a total catastrophe. Northern Rock was involved in the US sub-prime fiasco. As of this week the Bank of England has had to …
Harold Pinter on governments
The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others. It’s escalated and there is a basic indifference to human fate on the part of authoritarian systems, which I believe exists not in a faraway country necessarily but here and now …