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Racer Sam (sam_beyer)
Race Number 4
Date Wed, 2 Jan 2013 22:09:02 +0000
Speed 57 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 92.0%
Rank 4th place (out of 9)
Opponents allyssacha (2nd place) carlosperez (9th place) ceegm23 (8th place) cluna6 (3rd place) damaristeran (7th place) hsurcamp (6th place) kioane (1st place) maxwell55555 (5th 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)