Japanese schools just recently began giving children every other Saturday off, and are hoping to make it every Saturday by 2002. Lucy Crespo DaSilva of Brazil was the fourth MIT student to commit suicide since 1998. Typically, colleges nationwide average about one suicide a year. We try to talk about issues of depression and issues of suicide regularly. We all know the catechism.
Stock prices mint fortunes at the speed of a mouse click.
Billionaires live next door. Yak herders carry Palm Pilots. And so on, ad nauseam. It is not that growth is not real. But as social analysis, to say only that is to build a stool missing two legs.