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Re: A question to think about......

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From: Carl Witthoft
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 00:00
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In epistle  <73kh7b$q5m@flatland.dimensional.com>, an amazing wordwright
named telecon@dimensional.com (telecon) may or may not have claimed:

->In article <365D5904.FD059FD3@nh.ultranet.com>,
->Wizard  <-=Never@Never.com=-> wrote:
->:the number of chronically hungry people in the world was rising and that
->:the Asian financial crisis could spell even more pain for the poor. The
->:Rome-based agency, which in 1996 hosted a World Food Summit that aimed
->:to halve the number of hungry people by 2015, said in an annual State of
->:Food and Agriculture Report that the number of severely undernourished
->:people in developing countries rose to 828 million in 1994-96 from 822
->:million in 1990-92. 
->
->Time for a war.  The easiest way to halve the number of hungry people in
->the world is to kill them.
->
->Sad but true.

Rant part one:  name ANY war that came close to killing even 10% of the
world's population.  you can't.


Rant part two:  how did this absurd troll erupt into over 75 messages in
only a couple days?   Haven't you all learned to ignore the nonsense
posted by "Wizard" ?
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Carl Witthoft  cgw@world.std.com  carl@aoainc.com  http://world.std.com/~cgw
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From: cgw@world.std.com (Carl Witthoft)
Subject: Re: A question to think about......
Date: 1998/11/29
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