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...many problems that nobody outside the small Shanghai GM (SGM) project team thought the venture could work, even with $1.5 billion to invest. Build a factory in a marsh, train Chinese workers to international standards and bring to market a car costing $40,000 in a country where per capita GDP is less than $800? In two years...
Patricia L. Santos '00 set out to write a thesis about the way prostitution undermines the status of women. But she found that in states where people buy the most pornography and hire the most prostitutes per capita--in California, for example--women earned the most money and participated more in the labor force...
Most America-should-be-like-the-Continent arguments fall flat on their face, and this one is no different. More guns simply do not mean more murder, at least if you look beyond a few states in Western Europe. Israel has more guns per capita than the U.S., but its murder rate is almost half that of oft-exalted Canada. Sweden and Finland are two comparably armed societies, but you're much more likely to get knocked off in one than in the other. And Switzerland, with widespread gun ownership, is far safer than many other countries with more restrictive...
...have in hand most of the technologies needed to chart a new course. We know how to use oil, wood, water and other resources much more efficiently than we do now. Increased efficiency--doing more with less--will enable us to use fewer resources and produce less pollution per capita, buying us the time to bring solar power, hydrogen fuel cells and other futuristic technologies on line...
...world's poor, the nations of sub-Saharan Africa are the most heavily indebted, owing some $200 billion, equivalent to roughly three times the value of their annual exports. Across a region where per capita GNP is barely $300, external debt per capita clocks in at more than $360. Although their citizens are ravaged by AIDS, African governments spend roughly four times as much on interest payments as on health care. Says Njehu: "Make no mistake, the people hardest hit by austerity programs adopted because of debt problems are the poor--the same people who benefited least from the original...