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...rise 90% over 1970 levels in the next 20 years, assuming no deterioration in climate, most of this harvest of plenty will go to countries that are already well fed. That will mean calamitous scarcity in the Third World, which will slip farther behind the industrialized countries in per capita gross national product as well ($587 vs. $8,485 in 2000 compared with $382 vs. $4,325 in 1975, as measured in 1975 dollars). The number of malnourished will rise from an estimated half-billion people in the mid-1970s to 1.3 billion by the year 2000. Starvation will claim...
French vintners are attracted to California by the still vast U.S. market. Despite the growing popularity of wine in the U.S., Americans drink only 2 gal. of it a year per capita, vs. 29 gal. for the French. Europeans are also drawn by the large tracts of California's excellent uncultivated land. In the 86,000-acre Champagne district of northeastern France, Piper, for example, has only seven acres of the precious chalky soil. Now Piper has an investment in 1,200 acres of land in the Napa Valley...
...only to those of Saudi Arabia, have made the country self-sufficient in energy, although that could change by the middle of this decade because of the difficulty in finding and exploiting oil and gas in remote and inhospitable expanses. By numerous indexes ?electrification, physicians and nurses per capita, teacher-to-pupil ratios, books published per annum?the U.S.S.R. is an advanced, and still advancing society. Despite censorship and an official ethos that discourages innovation, Russian culture of the Soviet era has produced masterpieces of Western civilization, especially in music, poetry and dance...
...World War II. Following massive investments of both capital and labor, agricultural output has risen by an average of 3% annually since 1953. Even though the diet remains starchy and the nation's overburdened and inefficient distribution system produces periodic shortages of everything from pork to potatoes, per capita food consumption has nonetheless more than doubled since 1951, a feat unmatched by any other advanced nation. Industrial growth has also been heady; the Soviet gross national product, a mere 40% of the U.S.'s in 1955, is 60% today...
...lucky applicants will be culled from 19,329 proposals received by the DOE, with two-thirds of the total funding being distributed among states on the basis of population. The other third, or $4 million in aid, will go to areas that submit the most per capita applications. Alaska, where one out of every ten households requested application forms, is expected to be the runaway leader...