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...Cambridge was home to more than three times the number of robberies and aggravated assaults per capita than was Princeton. What’s more, this city’s crime rates that year were the lowest in four decades, according to the Cambridge Police Department’s 2005 Annual Crime Report. But the perception of almost tedious tranquillity that gives Princeton choirboys such glee is endemic to Harvard, and without good reason...
...part of the global explosion of demand for water. In absolute terms water isn't any scarcer. The cycle of precipitation and evaporation may be undergoing changes, some of them disturbing-- like the melting of the ice caps and the prospect of significantly higher sea levels. But in per capita terms, water has become scarce. While world population has doubled in the past 50 years, water consumption has tripled. More efficient appliances and toilets have helped push down per capita consumption in the developed world--from 200 L a day 25 years ago to 135 today in France, for instance...
Ghana's early years were full of energy and excitement. At the time, many parts of newly independent Africa were far richer and better developed than the countries that would later become Asia's tigers. In the late 1950s, Ghana's per capita GDP was equivalent to South Korea's; today it is about $550, compared with South Korea's $16,000. Nigerians still lament that they once had a massive palm-oil industry but it has long since been overtaken by such Asian countries as Malaysia, which were better run and less corrupt...
While I enjoy my super-sized fries and wireless internet as much as the next American, I also recognize that the United States is far from being the exemplary society to which all others should aspire. We have the largest per capita prison population of any nation in the world. Many Americans still struggle to make ends meet, and the Americans who do “make it” often find that their material success doesn’t translate into happiness or even contentedness. Most Americans are overweight, which is symbolic of the fact that although we make...
...Ghana's early years were full of energy and excitement; many parts of newly independent Africa were far richer and better developed than the countries that would later become Asia's tigers. In the late 1950s, Ghana's per capita gdp was equivalent to South Korea's; today it is around $550 compared with South Korea's $16,000. Nigerians still lament that they once had a massive palm oil industry but that Asian countries such as Malaysia, which were better run and less corrupt, have long overtaken them...