Interesting articles on other sites:

• Animals extinct in the 21st century:
  Maybe more have been lost without official confirmation.
  Scientific surveys are expensive.

• Consumerism vs. Survival:
  An outline of the issues we face in the 21st century.

• Psychologists’ children:
  Not all of them get an upbringing you would envy.

• The Country of The Blind by H.G. Wells:
  The complete text of his short story with a brief introduction.

• The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child?  No threat!
  As the article says, there must be something peculiar about American parents who feel threatened by it.

• John Lennon and Primal Therapy:
  The way he treated his son Julian after primal therapy shows the beneficial effects didn’t last.