Will domestic demand for even sleeker, faster, fancier devices over the long run make it harder for Americans to innovate for the vaster, less opulent world outside, still dominated by frugal wants?
Doctors spend about £3.5 billion a year treating the depression and anxiety disorders suffered by some 6m British adults a vast amount less than is spent treating the physical ailments of roughly 500,000 patients in the last year of their lives.Recent cuts to health spending have fallen hardest on mental-health care, just as doctors say demand is rising.
We explored the prevalence of syringomyelia in a series of 113 cases of fetal dysraphism and hindbrain crowding, of gestational age ranging from 17.5 to 34 weeks with the vast majority less than 26 weeks gestational age.
14 Furthermore, the amount of scientific literature on how to collect quantitative data is vast, but less has been published in scientific journals about how to collect and handle data from open-ended questions.
Panama's vast, road-less jungles are home to more than 940 recorded bird species and 105 endangered species, including the Central American tapir, the American crocodile, the scarlet macaw, and many species of eagle.
Most of us are keenly aware that there are many other things that release us, if only for a moment (and a moment that can feel like a piece of eternity), from the "'I": the birth of a child, an act of love, deep absorption in a piece of music or a film or a book, the magical liberation that can come from being lost in a landscape much vaster and less temporary than we can be.
The rules of behavior, whether personal or corporate, that are perfectly acceptable for a small group of humans on a vast continent grow less and less reasonable when we are approaching 300 million and a lot of the land, air, water and other natural resources have been occupied or depleted.
The vast majority were less than impressed.
There are a vast number of less populous groups.
The room has also been sectioned to make it seem less vast, cozier.
