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Nationally, the battle may be decided at the dinner table. Health-conscious Americans are eating more of "the other white meat." Thanks in part to marketing campaigns that stress the low fat content of pork, consumption in the U.S. has edged up, from 49 lbs. per capita to 53 lbs. during the past nine years, even as beef consumption has fallen, from 79 lbs. per capita to 68 lbs. (Americans eat poultry, the current king of the table, at the per-capita rate of 73 lbs. a year.) The lofty goal of the National Pork Producers Council is to overtake...
Once, not so long ago, schussers and shredders were the Hatfields and McCoys, the sheepherders and cattle ranchers, of the slopes. Separated by age, fashion, etiquette, lingo and per capita income, the skier and the snowboarder rode up the mountain together in chilly silence...
...wealthy will result in even greater burdens being imposed on those least able to fend for themselves. Consider New Hampshire. Despite being among the 10 wealthiest states according to income and having a relatively low overall tax burden, the state also ranks dead last among all states in per-capita charitable giving. Even more telling is that 16% of New Hampshire families who report adjusted gross income in excess of $200,000 also report absolutely no charitable contributions. As New Hampshire goes, so goes the nation. THOMAS H. TRUNZO JR. Orford, New Hampshire
...dynamic Commerce Minister, P. Chidambaram, emphasized that his generation of Indian leaders, unlike the country's founders, believe only economic growth spurred by further liberalization can eradicate poverty. He was sure that goal could be substantially reached by 2010. By then, if current trends continue, India's annual per capita gross national product will rise from its present...
...erode once it reverts to China in 1997. Everywhere on our tour, to a greater extent than most participants had expected, experiments with the free market are unleashing a surge of human energy. Hong Kong of all our stops has the most experience with free markets, the greatest per capita income, the least poverty. Yet the cloud over its essential freedoms is putting its future into question. I hope you keep tabs with us, in the pages of TIME, on the absorbing drama of these transformations...