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From: Remi Category: Life Date: 22 January 2007 Time: 07:44 AM Review: So many statistics in the papers, in the news. They aren't particularly apt or revealing, merely repetitive. In fact, our view of what we are reading would be no worse off without these tedious calculations. The journalists can't get enough of them, and us the readers are obliged to follow suit. We are complicit in their numerical laziness. But I say, no! We must strike out against this facile way of looking at the world, and use the full strength of our emotions, imagination etc. to describe what we see around us. Sometimes, I feel that I'm turning into a number, and believe me, that's not pretty.