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Racer John (lekebil)
Race Number 67
Date Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:59:12 +0000
Speed 67 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 92.2%
Rank 2nd place (out of 4)
Opponents roberta80 (1st 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)