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Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching. -- Inscription on an Assyrian clay tablet, circa 2800 B.C.E. (Maggie Koerth-Baker, Boing Boing)