Word: capita
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Texas won in a rout last year (40 to 11), but Oklahoma led the country in per-capita executions. And the state is beginning 2001 ambitiously. It can't claim credit if Timothy McVeigh is put to death--he's a federal prisoner--but it has already scheduled eight of its own through Feb. 1. And one of the two last week included the first black woman put to death in the U.S. in nearly a half-century...
Djibouti and a few Arab states helped underwrite the peace conference and provided four-wheel drives for the President and Prime Minister, and a few thousand police uniforms. But big money from Western governments will be harder to come by. During the cold war, Somalia attracted more aid per capita than any other African state, first from the Soviets and then from the U.S. "It's true that we had a dependency," says Mahamoud Mohamed Uluso, a minister in the Barre government. But once the cold war ended, the money dried up. What followed made many donor nations wary...
...United States uses more energy per capita than any other country in the world. Though we constitute only 5 percent of the world's population, we use up 23 percent of the energy consumed in the entire world for one year. Energy is the most fundamental foundation of our society: Without it, our lives would quite literally come to a standstill. Underlying this absurdly disproportionate use of energy lies the assumption that we are entitled to unlimited use at affordable prices. California's case this year, for example, provides ample evidence of the power that this assumption holds over...
...moving to a popular vote is not a full answer. For one thing, an amendment to remove the College would never receive support from three-fourths of the states, as small states receive more electoral votes per capita than their larger peers. For another, popular votes would have a greater chance of fraud or ballot error, as 200,000 fraudulent votes nationwide would be less noticeable than 19,000 errant ballots in Palm Beach County...
...truth is that Massachusetts spends more per capita on medical care than any other place on earth. One would expect, given these exorbitant expenditures, that most residents of the state would be provided at least some form of a guarantee to healthcare. However, approximately 350,000 people have no form of health insurance and cannot qualify for Medicaid. These uninsured are often working class people whose jobs do not offer a health insurance plan...