There have been only three modern phenomena -- all of them urban in origin -- that have managed to transcend these loyalties.
The UK's chronic shortage of organ donors reminds us of how and why, like so many other modern phenomena, organ transplants are becoming a global problem.
It's an unintended consequence of two modern phenomena, security cameras and the paparazzi who pursue famous people, making a living from snatched images.
The English version, he says, loses a neat allusion to one of Seneca's letters.But stretching ancient vocabulary to describe modern phenomena requires ingenuity (see table).
He expanded international news coverage while playing down Italian politics, devoted more attention to economic subjects and widened the cultural scope to include modern phenomena like the Beatles and James Bond.
While people tend to think of the "four-letter words" as modern phenomena, the reality is that the earliest recorded uses of these words date from 1,000 years ago ("f**k" is one of the most recent, from 1503).
