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Racer Marcus (novas)
Race Number 379
Date Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:41:51 +0000
Speed 70 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 92.0%
Rank 4th place (out of 5)
Opponents athosmasques (3rd place) scottee (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)