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...figures which caused the market to rise and the average person to feel better about his prospects where a short dodge in the wrong direction, the economy will have played a cruel trick. Cruelty and tricks are part of the fiber of daily living at this point, so perhaps the shocks will begin to hurt less...
...Unfortunately, this ability to change settings or switch channels whenever we want has a downside. Research has shown that exposure to repeated blips of information from video games and TV may rewire the brain to create shorter attention spans. Some researchers have even suggested that the rise in cases of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder may be connected to the growing screen culture...
...This withdrawal from reality, however, is extremely hazardous to our health. A growing body of research has revealed a strong correlation between excessive Internet use and mental disorders. Some neuroscientists, for instance, have suggested a possible link between the increase in online relationships and the rise in autism. Since online chatting does not require the sensitivity to tone and body language like a real conversation does, excessive reliance on online communication might cause our face-to-face communication skills to deteriorate. This leads to further social isolation as we retreat back into our online relationships...
...from 11 to 10) and delay the next generation of cruisers, drives those who believe in the China threat up the wall. As AEI's Donnelly writes, "as the air defense and air combat capabilities of other nations, most notably China, increase, the demand for F22s would likewise rise." For years, as defense analyst and occasional Pentagon consultant Thomas P.M. Barnett writes in his new book Great Powers: America in the World After Bush, the promoters of what he calls Washington's "Leviathan" force have used the prospect of war with China over Taiwan or possibly North Korea as justification...
...economic growth from becoming a serious threat to social stability. China is notorious for its lack of a social safety net, with hundreds of millions of peasants lacking even basic health care, much less luxuries such as unemployment benefits or pensions. Now, faced by soaring unemployment and an accompanying rise in poverty, Beijing is scrambling to put in place measures that will ease the pain for the newly impoverished. Some 16 billion dollars has been budgeted by the central government for health and education in the coming years, and its chosen method of distributing the money is often those same...