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When energy was expensive, Americans treated it that way. Between 1973 and 1985, when the price of oil surged, U.S. per capita energy consumption fell 12% and the average amount of goods and services generated per person rose 17%. In the past few years, however, energy use has risen as the price has declined. Americans, who own more than 135 million cars, or about one-third of the world's total, have been driving more and have resumed their love affair with large gas-guzzling cars...
Salinas, the 40-year-old economist and former foreign minister of Budget and Planning, finds himself immediately confronted with an economy which many observers say is on the verge of wholescale collapse. Inflation is nearly 60 percent, per capita income is rapidly declining and the country's foreign debt is roughly $104 billion. Service and interest payments on this debt alone demand more than 40 percent of Mexico's export earnings, money desperately needed to revitalize the country's industrial base...
Cambridge has the third highest incidence per capita of AIDS among Massachusetts cities, according to a recent report by the Cambridge Committee on Health and Hospitals...
Kessler said that the large Haitian population in Cambridge may account for the high number of cases because Haitians as a group are "disproportionately affected [by AIDS] on a per capita basis." Many of the early AIDS cases found in the Western hemisphere were discovered in Haiti...
...historically. What they do share is a constellation of evil circumstances that, taken together, offer a cautionary illustration of just how hard it is for backward and impoverished societies to grope their way from national repression to political and civic liberty. Both are desperately poor: Haiti's per capita income of $393 is the lowest in the western hemisphere, while Burma's $197 makes it one of the least developed nations in the world. Both have been ruled for decades by egotistical and paranoid men of exceptional crueltywho deliberately cut their people off from the mainstream of progress and change...