In 1980 People with college degrees made on average 30 per cent more than those with only high school diplomas. Today that disparity has widened to 70 per cent. in the case of higher degrees there is a gap of 100 per cent between those with advanced degrees and those with only high school diplomas. …
60 % of British men, 50% per cent of women and 20% of primary school girls are expected to be obese by mid-century, and this will cost 45 billion pounds a year if nothing is done. Come on, Libertarians, do you think this is acceptable, and if not what would you do about it?
Only two cars sold in the US have a combined city/highway gas mileage of over 40 miles per gallon. In contrast, there are 113 such cars in markets elsewhere. It is worse than it looks, because a few years ago there were five cars that could reach 40 mpg in the States. Meanwhile 88% of …
A study quoted in the Guardian Weekly (October 26th) shows that an 18-hole golf course requires, on average, 22 tonnes of chemical treatments (mostly pesticides) every year, seven times the rate per hectare for industrial farming. Another survey shows higher rates of some cancers, such as non-Hodgkins lymphoma, (associated with certain pesticides) among golf course …
There are between 13 and 15 million children in the world who have been orphaned by AIDS, a gigantic pool of potential recruits for criminal gangs and militias.
