American ties (part 1)

In July, 2006, the New York Times ran a� scary story headlined, ?The Lonely American Just Got a Bit Lonelier.? It was one of many news accounts that summer that reported on a dramatic finding from a study newly published in a major sociology journal. The authors had discovered that about 25 percent of Americans interviewed in a 2004 nationally representative survey had answered ?no one? when asked with whom they had ?discussed important matters? in the previous six months ? and that percentage was way up from the 8 percent who had answered ?no ... More >Cars Bicycle Horse