Our world

[robert l dolezal <bobbylu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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