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If we choose to give the child the intensity of individual love, we can’t spare her what comes with that, the risk of pain. Pain from us, and through us.”
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
Real figures, on the other hand, are adjusted for inflation.
Naked Statistics
Charles Wheelan
When more Americans opted to drive rather than to fly after 9/11, there were an estimated 344 additional traffic deaths per month in October, November, and December of 2001 (taking into account the average number of fatalities and other factors that typically contribute to road accidents, such as weather). This effect dissipated over time, presumably as the fear of terrorism diminished, but the authors of the study estimate that the September 11 attacks may have caused more than 2,000 driving deaths.
Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread From the Data
Wheelan, Charles
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