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...rapidly growing population and high fertility in poor nations, one might naturally infer that numbers of people living in hunger and poverty would be on the rise. But even in spite of population increases, the total number of malnourished people has dropped by 200 million in the last three decades. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reports that between 1970 and 1995 the proportion of undernourished people declined by half, falling drastically from 37 to 18 percent of all human beings. For over a century, the real-world price of food has been in consistent decline even as quality...
...could infer that Harvard’s administration found the sculpture stimulating rather than offensive...
That is why, if we do not join the protesters ourselves—in fact, the vast majority of us choose not to—we offer them our tacit support. We infer from their tirades the progressive visions they should be advocating. We allow them to shape the landscape of political debate, centering the ideological spectrum around their radical liberalism and radicalizing moderate conservative perspectives. We allow angry protesters to define the zeitgeist of the Harvard experience...
...dramas like Six Feet Under, for instance, characters talk around their feelings and leave you to infer their real meaning, like people in good novels (and real life). On most network dramas, people talk like they do, well, on TV: they say exactly what they're thinking and have crystal-clear motives. Swear words and skin rarely cost viewers or ad revenue anymore, but complex stories and strong points of view are polarizing. Love-'em-or-hate-'em shows fit HBO's business model: the gleefully misanthropic Curb Your Enthusiasm is a hit for HBO because a few million people...
...Road without getting beaten or eaten. Hongkies will inform you that it?s not quite like that: the place is bustling but civilized. You will tell them that Rob Schneider does not necessarily exemplify the American male. And both sides will have learned an important cinema lesson: don?t infer documentary from fantasy...