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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (60731)3/6/2005 10:46:51 AM
From: Tommaso  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
OT on obesity.

Pretty funny that he says: "Obviously, in America, where we have an epidemic of obesity that is far more damaging than even a pandemic is likely to be . . ."

Just go to your nearest McDonalds and look around.

Then there's that addictive poison that is involved in something like 40% of the deaths in the United Kingdom. And that plague of steel contraptions that killed 1,500 people last year in one state alone--the state I live in--according to this morning's newspaper.

Back on topic: Time to recommend again Gustave Le Bon's book, "The Crowd" where much of the analysis has to do with the capacity of human beings to have their attention directed away from events that actually affect numerous people in important ways to things that catch their imagination because they are unfamiliar and exotic:

amazon.com
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