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Racer Allyssa (allyssacha)
Race Number 237
Date Wed, 2 Jan 2013 22:08:45 +0000
Speed 70 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 92.2%
Rank 2nd place (out of 9)
Opponents carlosperez (9th place) ceegm23 (8th place) cluna6 (3rd place) damaristeran (7th place) hsurcamp (6th place) kioane (1st place) maxwell55555 (5th place) sam_beyer (4th place)

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We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy literally everything. And the majority of us live lifestyles undreamed of only a generation or two ago. One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the average household in Europe or North America has so many devices and such a variety of food and clothing that to produce the same lifestyle in Roman times would have required six thousand slaves.
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff (book) by Fred Pearce (see stats)