Because all included patients were living in Phnom Penh, mediocre hygiene might have favored the diffusion of clones within an urban area, a phenomenon that had previously been observed in large-scale studies undertaken in the United Kingdom (12 ), Canada (36 ), Italy (37 ), and Brazil (15 ) but not in Hong Kong (13 ).
Those 10 men have condemned us to live in a world more mediocre than the one they attacked, rather than be the catalyst for a dazzling new one.
Meanwhile, the rest live in a world marked by insecurity, at best mediocre education and in effect rationed health care".
The teacher claims that jazz is dying because we live in a soft, cushy culture where everyone is patted on the back for being mediocre, creating a generation of bad players.
Karaoke, a combination of the Japanese words for "empty" and "orchestra," was conceived in 1971 when Daisuke Inoue, a mediocre drummer living in Kobe, invented a machine that produced five minutes of singalong time for less than a dollar.
However, be prepared to live with mediocre performance and an underwhelming multimedia experience.
"I was a mediocre student," says Pi San, whose family lived in a bleak copper-mining town in the hills of Shanxi Province.
Lloyd Moritz, who lives in Yakima, Wash., and publishes a blog about cereal (breakfastbowl.blogspot.com), wrote an item about Wheaties in March 2008, "The Breakfast of the Mediocre".
A mediocre watercolorist, "the only child of sad parents who had spent their lives trying to run a guest house on the Norfolk coast," she lives in a state of chronic artistic malaise for which the late-blooming erotic fulfillment of her partnership with Veronica provides only partial compensation.
That's the other thing a lot of folks live mediocre lives because they're so caught up in their addiction.
