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...French themselves are not quite sure what to make of this exodus. To an extent, what's happening in France is also being seen elsewhere. Many Europeans are now discovering the joys of a newfound mobility - and not just the brainy scientists who have long deserted their home labs for the U.S. As borders have fallen, more people than ever are packing up and leaving: thousands of Britons are trying their luck in France and Spain, even as Poles and other East Europeans flock to London to take often menial jobs...
...acknowledge, or at least don't dispute, the fact that teens are being restricted and also medicated with prescription drugs more than ever. But you seem reluctant to face the obvious: that the restrictions and medications are reactions to horrific teen difficulties-occurring in the U.S. and to some extent in some countries that imitate our lifestyle but nowhere else on earth. The timetable that most interests you, perhaps because of your age, is the period from about 1991 to 2003-when prescription medications and extreme restrictions (especially in schools) were reactions to school shootings and high rates of mental...
Debt isn't necessarily a bad thing. But it does eventually have to be paid back or defaulted on. If the U.S. economy becomes more productive and consumers' incomes rise--as happened, to some extent, in the late 1990s--paying it back might not be a problem. But let's say wages stagnate--one possible consequence of globalization. The alternatives then are debt payments that will slash our standard of living or defaults that could bring a global financial crisis...
...suffers from severe myopia, became pregnant for the third time in 2000. Three doctors told her she could go blind if she gave birth but, contravening Polish law, refused to write her a certificate that would authorize an abortion. After giving birth, Tysiac's eyesight has worsened to the extent that she cannot see objects more than five feet away. She now receives a monthly disability pension equivalent to 140 euros...
Still, the series has never been afraid to be topical or resonate with current events: nearly every season opens with a newspaper landing in Tony's driveway, underlining the suburban setting and reminding us that, to some extent, the show intends to deliver the news. Tony (James Gandolfini) has fretted about terrorism and suffered through recessions; wife Carmela (Edie Falco) dabbled in stocks during the NASDAQ craze and in real estate when that market took off. There have been parallels to politics--like Tony's Clintonian appetites and his Bushian yen for simple answers--and direct references, as when Carmela...