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...Iran administered the second oil shock six years later. Both episodes produced some national hand-wringing and a spate of conservation measures that cut imports in half between 1977, their peak year, and 1985. But when world oil prices collapsed in 1986, the nation's per capita oil consumption began to climb again, the fuel efficiency of American cars slid downward, and oil imports returned to the levels of the 1970s...
...California. "Self- determination means that we are completely free to set our own direction and goals, basically our own destiny." That destiny is in dire need of reshaping: life expectancy in some tribes is 45 years, the leading cause of death is alcoholism, and Indians have the lowest per capita income of any ethnic group in the U.S. A weak school system has made it nearly impossible for Native Americans to succeed in competitive jobs off the reservations. Without the resources to address these problems, tribal leaders fear that poverty and aimlessness will destroy whatever remains of traditional Indian culture...
There are hundreds of teenagers like Alice in the South Bronx, a crumbling stretch of New York City with one of the country's lowest per capita incomes. They stake out street corners and empty parks. They live in abandoned buildings, discarded cars, rusting boilers and cardboard boxes. Most come from broken homes with abusive parents. Nearly all are addicts, have severe medical problems and are regularly beaten by their customers. Some are killed. In order to aid these kids, Planned Parenthood of New York founded Project Street Beat, a neighborhood organization that trolls the Bronx, visiting the places where...
...rich," he wrote. "No nation is drunken where wine is cheap. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey." Jefferson, alas, failed miserably to convert fellow citizens to his favorite beverage. Americans last year drank 23.5 gal. of beer and 26.6 gal. of coffee per capita but only 2.1 gal. of wine. As a result, although the U.S. ranks sixth among the world's wine-producing nations, it is 29th in terms of wine consumption...
...thumbnail index of failure, consider the number of people left out in the cold. Despite per capita medical expenditures that dwarf those of socialized systems, 37 million Americans have no health insurance at all. For the uninsured and the underinsured -- who amount to 28% of the population -- a diagnostic work-up can mean a missed car payment; a child's sore throat, an empty dinner table...