In Anna Karenina, Tolstoy writes that Levin feels no love for his daughter when she is born. Ok...I was going to try to paraphrase, but I'll have to grab the book:
It was the consciousness of another vulnerable region. And this consciousness was at first so painful, the fear lest that helpless being should suffer was so strong, that it quite hid ( Read more... )

So 6,000 Iraqi civilians have died in the past 2 months. Let's look a little closer at those numbers...

Iraqi Civilians             Time Period
6,000                in          2 months
3,000                in          1 month
750                   in          1 week
100                   in          1 day
4.1666...          in          1 hour
1.041666 ( Read more... )