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Americans are less healthy than Canadians and have poorer and less accessible healthcare despite spending about twice as much on it per capita, according to a study published by three Harvard Medical School scientists last week. The authors, HMS instructor Karen E. Lasser and assistant professors Stephanie J. Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein, concluded that Americans suffer more from chronic illnesses and obesity than Canadians, are less likely to have one regular doctor, and are almost twice as likely to forego medicine they need because they cannot afford it. The authors also found that Canadians saw smaller disparities in healthcare...
...assaulted two women in a bar in the French Quarter last week, and then shot and killed a man who came to their aid, police say. Today there are far fewer people in New Orleans and thus fewer dead bodies. But the number that matters most is the per capita figure. If this rate of killing continues, New Orleans will have an annual crime rate of roughly 45 murders per 100,000 people. (By comparison, New York City's murder rate last year...
...thoroughly—according to the results of the sixth annual Recyclemania competition. Harvard placed first out of 62 colleges in the contest’s paper recycling category. Residents within our ivied walls each recycled 36.41 pounds of paper on average. And overall, the University had a per capita recycling mass of 40.82 pounds, putting Harvard in seventh place in the “Per Capita Classic” part of the competition. “It’s the best we’ve ever done in proportion to the number of contestants,” Robert...
...waiting for the money to come." Last year, Vietnam passed business-friendly investment and enterprise laws and streamlined its bureaucratic licensing process, further boosting growth. Vietnam's GDP jumped 8.4% last year, the second fastest rate in Asia behind China, and the country took in more FDI per capita than both India and China...
...This scenario has a predictable outcome. Large numbers of Asians are experiencing real per-capita income gains exceeding those in the developed world. Indeed, in the U.S. and Western Europe, median per-capita incomes adjusted for inflation have barely increased in the past 20 years; in China, the median income has doubled every 10 years since the country began opening up its economy...