"These numbers leave out private donations, which dwarf goverment aid. "
Not quite true
Also fron NYT -
"Land of Penny Pinchers
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
<snip>
Americans give 15 cents per day per person in official development assistance to poor countries. The average American spends...
Soooooooo
Let's see.......
A Military Chief thinks European governments should spend more on the Military.....
And that the Military should be arbitors of Civil Liberties....
Nothing new there then
From "The Times"
Kopi lowak coffee
It costs £420 per kilogram and has a flavour that has proved impossible to imitate.
The prized beans' smooth taste and lack of bitter aftertaste is the result of having been
digested - and then excreted - by civet cats in Sumatra.
Fluorescent lighting has a capacitive effect, but it is small compared to inductive loads. That's why banks of capacitors are sometimes introduced into substations for power factor correction.
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