Facts from The Economist:
- Dairy cows attract 1000 flies per cow.
- Dairy cows generate 100 pounds of manure per animal per day.
- Angola, two years out of a civil war, seems to be one fantastically corrupt country. Its rulers have been accused of having ‘filched or misspent $4.2 billion in five years … The missing cash was equivalent to nearly a tenth of GDP each year — as if an American administration had ‘lost’ $5 trillion — and roughly as much as was spent on all social services.’
- Half of Angola’s children are malnourished while 20 Angolans are worth $100 million or more.
- Only 23 of Angola’s 168 municipal courts are functioning. The government says it will fix the problem ‘by 2051.’
- Mexico has an illegal-immigrant problem of its own — people attempting to migrate north from Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. ‘Last year, Mexico deported 147,000 illegal immigrants in all, some 20% more than in 2002.’ Most seem to be trying to make their way to the U.S.
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