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Nearly 80% of seniors take at least one pill a day, according to a recent survey. The number of medications in development for diseases associated with the elderly has grown from 225 a decade ago to 648 today. The increased number of prescriptions and the rising cost per pill mean seniors are on a treadmill of ever increasing expenditures. In the past five years national spending for all prescription drugs increased almost 60%. That pace is expected to continue. As seniors become more dependent on these remedies, they are also subjecting themselves to the increasing cost of the medicines. While...
...recent survey taken by the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, Muscovites rank "the presence of too many Caucasians" as the number one problem that Moscow faces today...
Needless to say, all of these reasons are fatuous, and the survey is simply disturbing. How can an American respond to this sort of racism coming from the mouths of people whom I otherwise respect? Hardly anyone has heard of political correctness in Moscow, and if they have, they scoff at it. Those crazy Americans making things complicated for themselves, they say. Russian society is keenly aware of its uniqueness as a nation, and it looks for commonality among people of other societies as well. Consequently, stereotypes can go a long way towards what is considered truth in Russia...
...recent survey taken by the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, Muscovites rank "the presence of too many Caucasians" as the number one problem that Moscow faces today...
Needless to say, all of these reasons are fatuous, and the survey is simply disturbing. How can an American respond to this sort of racism coming from the mouths of people whom I otherwise respect? Hardly anyone has heard of political correctness in Moscow, and if they have, they scoff at it. Those crazy Americans making things complicated for themselves, they say. Russian society is keenly aware of its uniqueness as a nation, and it looks for commonality among people of other societies as well. Consequently, stereotypes can go a long way towards what is considered truth in Russia...