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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (37734)	11/29/1998 12:35:00 PM
From: accountclosed	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

MB. I think that you said that you don't get CNN. There has been a news clip running this weekend on CNN showing anecdotal evidence of the human cost of the Asian contagion. They started off showing a man about to jump from a bridge in S. Korea. Then they went to a suicide hotline in Hong Kong and quoted a statistic that calls were way up. They further said that unfortunately many like agencies across Asia didn't keep such statistics. The saddest story was when they brought their story full circle back to S. Korea and said that officials had made it a policy to grease the support girders on bridges so that potential suicides would have more trouble climbing the superstructures since suicides were so rampant.