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However the responsibility for climate change is divided, the reality is that poorer nations like India will sacrifice disproportionately in a warmer world. It's up to rich nations like the U.S. to move first and move most - and the good news is that Obama seems ready to do so. Still, those efforts will come to naught unless countries like India do their part as well - with a lot of help from the developed world. It's not fair, but it is true...
...community-college students who set out to get a degree complete it within six years, whereas 58% of students at four-year schools graduate within that time frame. Students from middle-class or wealthy families are nearly five times more likely to earn a college degree as their poorer peers are. In 2007, 66% of white Americans ages 25 to 29 had completed at least some college, compared with 50% of African Americans and 34% of Hispanics...
...ranks. While per capita income figures based on race aren't available, counties in northern Xinjiang with larger Han populations are wealthier than in the largely Uighur south of the region. Witnesses said the rioters last week were young Uighur men, and some observers have suggested they were poorer migrant workers from the south of the region rather than long-term residents...
...naive. I believe he is if he thinks Iranians can be persuaded to switch focus to the economy - and question why their regime is not spinning money and enriching the country - while their centrifuges are "spinning day and night" enriching uranium. If the North Koreans, who are far poorer, can live with this set of priorities out of a sense of national pride, why can't the Iranians? Kangayam Rangaswamy, WAUNAKEE...
...naive. I believe he is if he thinks Iranians can be persuaded to switch focus to the economy - and question why their regime is not spinning money and enriching the country - while their centrifuges are "spinning day and night" enriching uranium. If the North Koreans, who are far poorer, can live with this set of priorities out of a sense of national pride, why can't the Iranians? Kangayam Rangaswamy, Waunakee...