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"cool" for a little while but pretty soon she would dance with Tony and it
seemed like she got over it. Yet, even the next day she would think about
what had happened and cry. About lunch time she would wonder what Tony
was doing. A little fantasy would flash through her mind about Tony calling up
the woman he danced with and asking her out to lunch. That would hurt her
too.
Understanding Anger: Facts and Theories
How much hatred is there in the world? The 2002 WHO
Report
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather
than avenge it?
-----Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
WAR IS A RACKET It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable,
surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the
profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
-----General Smedley Butler (1881-1940),
US Marine Corps, two time winner
Congressional Metal of Honor
In 2002 the World Health Organization (WHO) produced the first carefully estimated
2002, can be downloaded as a PDF full report or as a series of summaries from
can email bookorders@who.int). The WHO researchers found that about 1.6 million
people die in violent ways every year. This includes wars, murder by gangs and
groups, youth violence, child abuse, elderly abuse, domestic violence, sexual abuse,
and suicide. Besides the people dying a violent death, there are, of course, many
millions of people injured by violence and/or left to suffer the long-term
consequences of violent acts. Keep in mind many violent events occur at home and
are never reported.
Perhaps other ways of looking at these statistics will be more meaningful to you. For
ages 15 to 44, violence causes about 14% of all deaths among males and 7% of
deaths among women. World wide about 1425 people are murdered each day,
