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...question of priorities: Do you want a working toilet or do you want the World Wide Web? Many seem to be choosing the Web. Access to adequate sanitation facilities in Latin America and Asia is falling while Web use is growing geometrically, according to a new report from the Worldwatch Institute. In China, 4 million people are expected to be online by the year 2000, though not even half of them have a toilet. Africans get the worst deal--few toilets and even fewer...
SOURCES: HAMMOND'S ATLAS OF THE 20TH CENTURY; THE TIMETABLES OF HISTORY; OUR TIMES, THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE 20TH CENTURY; THE PEOPLE'S CHRONOLOGY; WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE
Christopher Flavin is senior vice president at Worldwatch Institute and co-author with Nicholas Lenssen of Power Surge: Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution...
...coal-fired plant. Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado believes that a new generation of gearless wind turbines will improve efficiency and lower the cost to 3.5 cents per KW-H by the end of the decade. Christopher Flavin, co-author of Power Surge, a Worldwatch Institute book, says that within the next year India will be installing wind turbines at a faster rate than any other country...
...ultimate irony of this great harvest drama lies beyond the shores of the U.S. Lester Brown, head of the Worldwatch Institute, suggested earlier this year that unless there were dramatic changes in population growth and food supply, the world soon would not be able to feed itself. "Food security will replace military security as the principal concern of many nations over the next 40 years," he said. The American harvest miracle -- and even last week's announcement by the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines that a new, higher-yielding strain of rice would boost world production...