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List owner, could you please set out certain principles as to what is
relevant. As far as I am concerned this mailing list is related to the
discussion of politics, semiology, linguistics and the works of Chomsky
and not the forwarding of subjective emails irrelevant to the subject.
Thank you.
Silvia
Blarne Flinkard wrote:
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> A Summary of the World
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> If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100
> people ... with all existing human ratios, it would look like this:
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> There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere
> (North and South) and 8 Africans.
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> 51 would be female; 49 would be male
> 70 would be nonwhite; 30 white
> 70 would be non-christian; 30 Christian
> 6 people would have in their control 50% or the world's wealth and all of
> them would be citizens of the United States
> 80 would live in substandard housing
> 70 would be unable to read
> 50 would suffer from malnutrition
> 1 would be near death, 1 would be near birth
> 1 would have a college education
> No one would own a computer
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