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From interviews with 55 individuals who spend more than 18 hours a week caregiving. Source: National Alliance for Caregiving, National Center on Women and Aging at Brandeis University...
...same time, individual privacy is both systemically invaded and willingly forfeited. Businesses spend fortunes spying on the competition. A few weeks ago, a Russian spy was caught listening to a bug planted in the State Department, having possibly made a comfortable shift from cold war espionage to industrial espionage. CD-ROMs are sold with essential information on millions of citizens. Banks divulge how much money one has; credit companies, how much one owes. Yet privacy is also eagerly, happily surrendered--on radio and TV talk-revelation-boxing shows. Everyone owns a camcorder, so everyone is on TV. One has never...
...said to consist of a bus that runs occasionally on Sundays in the summer. A 21st century luxury on this remote Chilean possession is wood. And the few foreigners who gather here to see in the new millennium do so largely in the spirit of people choosing to spend the holidays with their grandparents. All over the island, in the ceremonial sites, you see lonely, breathing figures staring out into the silence...
...this stage that things get a bit complicated. Though 20 of every 1,000 babies fail the two-step screen, most prove on further examination to be just fine. Is it worth worrying 17 families of perfectly normal children--not to mention asking them to spend several hundred dollars on advanced tests--to identify three infants with hearing loss? On the other hand, what if you are the parent of a child whose disability might otherwise not be detected...
...surveys of how expensive an average meal is from city to city. As I envision the scene, one of my high school friends who has been presented the check for a huge fried-chicken feed says, "You know, we could order this meal all over again and still not spend as much as we would spend in New York City," and someone in his party says, "Well, O.K., but let's go a little heavier on the gizzards this time...