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...This gets us to the heart of the matter. When the wise men looked at their world in 1945, it was one of ruins. Germany and Japan had been destroyed. Britain was tired out; France shamed; Russia bled white. In China war would continue for another four years. Of the industrial democracies, only the U.S., Canada and Australia had been spared misery in their homeland. The U.S. economy accounted for nearly a half of total world output in 1945, a proportion that it has never approached since. Crucially, the U.S. defined what it was to be modern...
...British households drop around 30% by the time the children reach age 5. As kids grow, so does the education gap. The chances for smart-but-poor Britons to reach top universities are slim. A 2006 study for the Bonn-based Institute for the Study of Labor found that Britain had the lowest social mobility of the 12 developed countries surveyed...
...year project that spent an estimated $22 billion on a 3.5 mile highway beneath the city—was one of the nation’s largest and most expensive megaprojects, said Flyvbjerg, resulting in a 224 percent cost overrun. And construction of the Chunnel, a tunnel connecting Britain and France under the English Channel, caused such high cost overruns that the British economy may have been better off without it, he said. Flyvbjerg recommended that planners adjust their estimates based on budgetary overruns from similar projects in order to combat this problem. He cited the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa...
...that they will be paid later - receiving up to $1,200 for funerals that usually cost around $1,700. But according to the NAFD, a convergence of financial pressures has forced a growing number of undertakers to delay proceedings until the payment clears, leaving the corpses of some of Britain's most destitute citizens in earthly limbo for weeks at a time...
...specter of uninterred corpses has powerful evocations in Britain, where a strike by gravediggers in the 1978 "Winter of Discontent" left mortuaries struggling to cope. As the current delays only affect a percentage of welfare recipients, it is unlikely that this year will see a problem anywhere close to the scale of the 1978 crisis (which forced health officials to consider mass burials at sea). But Britain's undertakers have offered a corporeal reminder of how financial crises can infringe in intimate ways. "We are the forth richest country in the world," MP Kawczynski says. "The idea that you would...