{"id":399,"date":"2003-10-26T15:37:35","date_gmt":"2003-10-26T19:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blogtest\/2003\/10\/26\/minor-items-from-the-november-2003-"},"modified":"2003-10-26T15:37:35","modified_gmt":"2003-10-26T19:37:35","slug":"minor-items-from-the-november-2003-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/26\/minor-items-from-the-november-2003-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor items from the November 2003 Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2799'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Here are a few minor items from <A href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/issues\/2003\/11\/\">the November 2003 issue of the <EM>Atlantic<\/EM><\/A>:<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>a study ranks the U.S. as one of the world&#8217;s most likely spots for a large-scale terrorist attack (already report in <A href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/alqaida\/story\/0,12469,1021093,00.html\">this Guardian story<\/A>)<br \/>\n<LI>economic sanctions against governments are increasingly common (50+ incidents in the 1990s versus 15 in the 1950s) but there is no evidence that they are effective<br \/>\n<LI>single scientists, artists, writers, and criminals are vastly more productive into&nbsp;middle age&nbsp;than married men (the journal article is hidden behind a commercial publisher&#8217;s veil but <A href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nsu\/030707\/030707-8.html\">this summary<\/A> on nature.com is available)<br \/>\n<LI>R.J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii (<A href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/powerkills\/\">http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/powerkills\/<\/A>) contribute&nbsp;a graph of &#8220;Statistics of Democide&#8221;, killing of people by their own governments.&nbsp; These deaths dwarf the numbers killed in wars.&nbsp; The largest mass killing since World War II was by Pakistan against its Bengali citizens&nbsp;around 1970 (<A href=\"http:\/\/www.gendercide.org\/case_bangladesh.html\">background<\/A>).&nbsp; Partly this was an attempt by a Muslim government to kill as many Hindus as possible but it was intensified by the fact that some East Pakistanis were attempting to achieve independence and create an independent state of Bangladesh.<\/LI><\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few minor items from the November 2003 issue of the Atlantic: a study ranks the U.S. as one of the world&#8217;s most likely spots for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fromtheoldserver"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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