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Why we don't care about Darfur.(bodywise: mind)(social problems and its effects)

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| September 01, 2007 | Singer, Thea | COPYRIGHT 2007 Hearst Communications, reprinted with permission of Hearst. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

MORE THAN 200,000 PEOPLE dead in Darfur.

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Tens of thousands of women raped in eastern Congo.

One million killed by malaria each year, mostly in Africa, where 3,000 children alone are dying every day.

How can we read numbers like this and five minutes later be wondering whether to order the Tuscan Chianti or French Zinfandel? In his most recent paper, psychologist Paul Slovic, PhD, suggests that when we're hit with a figure like "one million dead," the brain is simply not up to the task of processing it: "Psychic numbing" kicks in, and we don't feel anything, emotionally or in the gut. This mental deadening, he believes, is a…

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