In a message dated 12/29/2004 8:33:25 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't want to sound politically correct, or as if I'm minimising the disaster in Asia because I'm not. I have been to some of those places and can imagine a bit of what they must be going through. But 3 million people die from malaria every year, half of them children; 25 million people in Africa have HIV/AIDS, and 6,000 of them die of it every day.
-- Bob =========== Yup. But, technically, those are diseases not natural disasters. There is always something especially horrifying about nature acting up. And, yup, it would be nice if we could wipe out diseases that we should be able to wipe out with just some concentrated effort or something (money or caring about other nations/other peoples or a more equitable distribution of wealth and health services or something). The worst disease is stupidity. Marnie aka Doe
