…period (usually 1 year) of live-born infants who have not reached their first birthday to the number of live births in the period. It is usually given in deaths per…
…On average the world corn farmer has been making the greatest annual percentage improvement. If during the next 60 to 70 years, the world farmer reaches the average yield of today’s U.S….
…are of no consequence or lost in the ruckus of history. To offer a flippant but telling example, Europeans, Americans, and Japanese ski much more now than we did in…
…round about him. Ezekiel 1:27 (circa 595 b.c.) In the ancient world, electrum (Hebrew) or elektron (Greek) was the material amber. Amber, when rubbed and electrified, preferably with cat fur, moved and lifted dust…
…a second comparison: a USA city of 500,000 people in 1994 and a USA city of 500,000 people with the 1994 diet and the yields of 1920. Farming as Americans…
…MacCleery, D. W. 1992. American forests: A history of resiliency and recovery. USDA Forest Service Report FS-540. Malenbaum, W. 1978. World demand for raw materials in 1985 and 2000. New York:…
…information. If during the next 60 to 70 years, the world farmer reaches the average yield of today’s U.S. corn grower, 10 billion people will need only half of today’s…
…emphasized the chance for exciting discoveries about the world in which we live. Much remains to be discovered about life in the oceans. For example, ichthyologists have so far identified…
…impossible feat for a world that built today’s worldwide fleet of some 430 nuclear power plants in about 30 years. Combined with other offset strategies, ZEPPs, together with another generation…
…blacks not of Spanish origin; Asian and Pacific Islanders, American Indians, and Eskimo and Aleut populations not of Spanish origin; other nonwhite populations not of Spanish origin; and Hispanics.) In…