- Feb 5, 2002
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Like the late Robert Ripley, of “Ripley’s Believe It or Not”, I am fascinated by rarities, oddities and anomalies. These include human group behavior, a huge factor in demography.
While the punditry is fixated on the US elections, which will thankfully – hopefully – be behind us as we go to press, I’ve been reading about an anomaly, aka Tokunoshima. Ever heard of the place? The other day Deseret News, a family-friendly newspaper owned by the LDS church, ran a story about it: “The island of treasured children: Family tradition is defying global trends on a subtropical island in the East China Sea.”
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While the punditry is fixated on the US elections, which will thankfully – hopefully – be behind us as we go to press, I’ve been reading about an anomaly, aka Tokunoshima. Ever heard of the place? The other day Deseret News, a family-friendly newspaper owned by the LDS church, ran a story about it: “The island of treasured children: Family tradition is defying global trends on a subtropical island in the East China Sea.”
Natalist nirvana?
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