50 Facts That Should Change the World 2. 0Revised, updated, and every bit as vital as the first edition!... |
Contents
The average Japanese woman can expect to live to be 84 | 1 |
A third of the worlds obese people live in the developing | 8 |
If you stand at the junction of Oxford Street and Regent | 14 |
China has 44 million missing women | 22 |
Brazil has more Avon ladies than members of its armed | 29 |
Ninetyfour percent of the worlds executions in 2005 took | 35 |
Supermarkets know more about their customers than | 44 |
Every cow in the European Union is subsidised by 2 50 | 51 |
In 2006 16 million Americans had some form of plastic | 79 |
Some 120000 women and girls are trafficked into Western | 330 |
A kiwi fruit flown from New Zealand to Britain emits five | 337 |
The US owes the United Nations more than 1 billion | 343 |
Children living in poverty are three times more likely | 350 |
Sources for the 50 Facts | 357 |
involved | 366 |
Glossary | 431 |
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