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What crime hurts most? (Hint: it's not the biggest)

By Garth Sundem on July 29, 2010 in Brain Candy

The attention we give to (or withhold from) tragedies has little to do with numbers: many hundreds can die in a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe or hundreds of thousands in an earthquake in China and it receives nowhere near the press and public outrage as nearly 200 killed in terrorist attacks in Mumbai. (This isn't meant to diminish the tragedy of Mumbai, only to act as comparison.) Read More

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Garth Sundem is the author of the books Brain Trust, Brain Candy, and The Geeks' Guide to World Domination.

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