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...emissions: don't drink bottled water. Think of all those millions of plastic bottles. Most municipal water in the U.S. is safe and can be made palatable with inexpensive filters. The water is transported to its final destination largely using gravity, which creates no emissions. And the feel-good factor? A friend of mine figured that over the course of a year she saved almost $1,000--enough to take herself on an environmentally friendly vacation...
...innovation," says Alberto Rodriguez, author of a soon-to-be-released World Bank study on how better education spurs growth. "You have the high-tech, frontier innovation, and you have the adaptation and improvement of technology that happen day to day in firms." Economists call that everyday improvement total factor productivity. It is the x factor that allows an economy to operate more efficiently, producing greater output with the same people and resources...
Having access to technology and workers with the skills to use it determine a country's total factor productivity and, in the end, its wealth. In 1960 South Korea and Brazil had about the same per capita income. Today South Korea's per capita income is five times Brazil's. "Most of the growth in Korea in this period can be attributed to improvements in total factor productivity," Rodriguez says. "And that is what Brazil needs...
...there any niggers here? ... Seven niggers, six spics, five Micks, four kikes, three guineas and one Wop." LENNY BRUCE, as part of his routine in the '60s AFTERMATH: Bruce was considered avant-garde rather than hateful. OUTRAGE FACTOR...
...black is a better athlete to begin with because he's been bred to be that way." JIMMY (THE GREEK) SNYDER, sports commentator, in a 1988 television interview AFTERMATH: Snyder, who was well liked, apologized but was later fired by CBS. OUTRAGE FACTOR...