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...increase in the use of paper bags, which cost more energy to produce and take up more space than plastic. Supposedly, paper is better anyway, because it has a higher recycling rate than plastic—around 20 percent versus a rather dismal one percent. But the comparison is not entirely apt: The country currently uses only 7 billion paper sacks per year, compared to 100 billion plastic bags. And paper has an organic, green image, making its users more likely to be the recycling type. When the average consumer, no more or less informed than she was yesterday, find...
...Like former justices Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell and Sandra Day O'Connor before him, Stevens has concluded as he nears the end of his career that America's modern death penalty is too complicated and too tangled ever to work efficiently or fairly. "The time for a dispassionate, impartial comparison of the enormous costs that death penalty litigation imposes on society with the benefits that it produces has surely arrived," the Court's senior justice wrote...
...Friday morphing into every day (i.e., the banishment of the tie, which represents 25% of Ratti's earnings), the weak dollar and, most important, China. "It's become very difficult," says Donatella, 50. "People don't want to pay our prices. They compare them to China's." Such a comparison irks her, since China lacks Ratti's quality, quickness and creativity and isn't interested in small quantities...
...version of what he hated most. His nightmarish rule has featured one too many policies characteristic of an illiberal colonial power. Considering his aggressive foreign policy, his ethnic cleansing campaigns, the role of his economic elite, and his iron-fisted rule, Mugabe’s legacy bears comparison with only the worst empires...
...comparison with funding for the illnesses that confront the developed world, research into disease endemic in the developing world is starved for resources. The World Health Organization estimates that 90 percent of the world’s health-related research addresses only 10 percent of global disease burden, leaving many diseases neglected by the modern research enterprise. These “neglected tropical diseases” (NTDs) include schistosomiasis, trypanosomiasis, hookworm, cholera, and malaria, and account for nearly a million and a half deaths per year...