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...Washington State stressing air quality; in Iowa, SAT scores; in Florida, water pollution. Bush touts his prescription-drug plan in senior-heavy Pennsylvania while bemoaning high energy prices and the lack of military preparedness in Michigan, where the price of gas is a particularly big issue and the per capita population of veterans is among the highest in the nation...
Strike up the Tift County High marching band. On Nov. 15 the football stadium will be jammed for the celebration, and a new billboard will soon grace the highway, forever shadowing the sod industry. But how does Tifton know it has read more books per capita than any other town? "We don't," says Brumby. "But we welcome all challenges. The idea was to teach a love of books to children, and we've done that...
...Games [THE SUMMER OLYMPICS, Oct. 9], but consider the massive populations those countries can draw on to produce top athletes. With just 19 million people, Australia won more than half as many medals as the U.S., whose 275 million population base dwarfs Australia's. On a per capita basis, the Olympic host nation didn't do badly at all in winning medals. JAMES KRAMER Toronto...
...Washington State stressing air quality; in Iowa, sat scores; in Florida, water pollution. Bush touts his prescription-drug plan in senior-heavy Pennsylvania while bemoaning high energy prices and the lack of military preparedness in Michigan, where the price of gas is a particularly big issue and the per capita population of veterans is among the highest in the nation...
...every three Nigerians lives below an already very low poverty line in a country with vast stores of natural resources. The average per-capita income flits about the $1,000 mark. The CIA paints a grim picture of the country's infrastructure: Its roads are falling apart because of the heavy freight trucks that pound the pavement. Those trucks, the CIA says, are on the highways because of the collapse of Nigeria's railways after years of neglect. U.S. aid to Nigeria has mushroomed from $7 million two years ago - funneled around the government to humanitarian groups - to $108 million...