Members of the list -
Despite the onerous problems of being a PWP - the increasing shakiness,
slowing movement, less frequent smile, sore back, increasingly monotonic
conversation - this IS Father's Day, both kids were here for a visit for
my last birthday of the millenium, I am doing better with an increase in my
daily dose of Requip and decrease in Sinemet, and I did read a front page
article in today's AZ Daily Star about successful dbs tremor-abating
surgery being performed at the University of Arizona. Then I received this
brief but direct message, from a thoughtful person at Stanford, that just
put some things in perspective for me, even striking a chord of hope.
Perhaps it will for you, too.
Bob Dolezal
Subject: the world
"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100
people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would
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> look something like the following. There would be:
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> 57 Asians
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> 21 Europeans
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> 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south
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> 8 Africans
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> 52 would be female
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> 48 would be male
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> 70 would be non-white
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> 30 would be white
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> 70 would be non-Christian
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> 30 would be Christian
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> 89 would be heterosexual
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> 11 would be homosexual
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> 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth (and
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> all 6 would be from the United States)
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> 80 would live in substandard housing
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> 70 would be unable to read
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> 50 would suffer from malnutrition
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> 1 would be near death; 1 would be near birth
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> 1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education
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> 1 would own a computer
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> When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the
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> need for both acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly
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> apparent.
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> Phillip M Harter, MD, FACEP
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> Stanford University, School of Medicine
