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"The life of nations merely
repeats, on a larger scale, the lives of their component cells; and he who
is incapable of understanding the mystery, the reactions, the laws that
determine the movements of the individual, can never hope to say anything
worth listening to about the struggles of nations."
~Marcel Proust
Soldiers humiliate Iraqi
prisoners
An interesting point of view 'Dumb and Dumber' culture has
bred depravity.
Happiness Survey
Sent in by Neil
LONDON, Oct. 1; People in Latin America, Western
Europe and North America are happier than their counterparts in Eastern
Europe and Russia, according to a British study. An analysis of levels
of happiness in more than 65 countries by the World Values Survey shows
Nigeria has the highest percentage of happy people followed by Mexico,
Venezuela, El Salvador and Puerto Rico, while Russia, Armenia and
Romania have the fewest. NEW ZEALAND ranked 15 for overall
satisfaction, the U.S. 16th, Australia 20th and Britain 24th - though
Australia beats the other three for day-to-day happiness," New
Scientist magazine, which published the results, said on
Wednesday. But the weekly magazine said that factors that make people happy
vary. Personal success, self-expression, pride, and a
high sense of self-esteem are important in the United
States. "In Japan, on the other hand, it comes from fulfilling the
expectations of your family, meeting your social responsibilities,
self-discipline, cooperation and friendliness," according to the
magazine. The survey is a worldwide investigation of
socio-cultural and political change
conducted about every four years by an international network of social
scientists. It includes questions about how happy people are and
how satisfied they are with their lives. It showed that average
happiness has remained virtually the same in industrialized countries
since World War Two, although incomes have risen. The exception is
Denmark, where people have become more satisfied with life over the
last three decades. Researchers believe the unchanging trend is linked
to consumerism.
"Survey after survey
has shown that the desire for material goods, which has increased hand
in hand with average income, is a happiness suppressant," the
magazine added.
It's official. (People have been
telling me this for years:)
[From the San Francisco Chronicle] Governor Gray Davis answered some
questions with personal stories, including one about his ill mother, and
with apt anecdotes from the past, but, surprisingly, he got caught up when
someone asked him to explain his "vision for the state."
"My vision is to make the most diverse state on earth, and we have people
from every planet on the earth in this state. We have the sons and daughters
of every, of people from every planet, of every country on earth," he said.
Never mind...
Of the 170,000 objects previously said to have been looted from the
National Museum in Baghdad, only 3,000 remain unaccounted for. Most were
found... in the hiding place where they were stored intentionally by museum
staff for safekeeping, and "The Treasure of Nimrud" (enamel jewelry from
Assyria dated 900 BC) in a bank vault. [Los Angeles Times, June 8, 2003]
SARS
8,400
people in the world have contracted SARS (00.0132%) about 10% died..
6,342,000,000 have not (99.9868%).
42,000 Americans died in car wrecks last year.
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