ah, statistics! take it as it..... or think : what is poverty, what is its level? what defines it? what would it be in another country? in another G8 country? what would it really be in puerto rico?

This map is [nearly] useless, only its comparison with previous data, to see the geographical evolution of poverty, or crossing it with other data as suggested by Dave, would be intersting.

makes me me think of the Quebec ice hotel http://www.icehotel-canada.com and its Absolut bar.

ROFLMAO

so castrating! ouch! :) :)

anyway for real I doubdt she could crack anything downthere...

"new Chinese coffee chain has been open"

mmmm.... what's the 'quality' of the Chinese netizens? maybe we should "griffith" their Ip adresses...

12.5.5.5 wu@grand.ministry.of.economic.war.com ....

what is it with this apologizing fashion?
I'm Christian, I don't feel the need to apologize for the Inquisition. I'm white, I don;t feel the need to apologize for slavery. My great great grand father payed somedy else to go to war and I don;t feel like apologizing for it.

I DIDN'T DO THOSE BAD THINGS!
I'm not an intergrist, I'm not a racist, I'm a responsible man.
WHY SHOULD I APOLOGIZE FOR OTHERS?

yeah and he figths copyright laws too ;)

On the news : the famous Kobe siamese tweens are training for the Kyoto tournement.

well, I can make pancakes served in a Ferrari. It's an expensive breakFAST.

I guess a lot of women will have something to trade if they want their hubby to pay for a nose job ;)))

and : *i.e. behave like males* LOL

The first big jump, yes, but he was far fom flying. The Wright bros' work on aerodynamics and the propeller made the difference.

One would be naive to believe there is no influence in Wikipedia. Just look at the wars on controversial subjects like Communism. I myself had made corrected a couple of entries that were not fair and partial.
So why a company, for example, would not try to "enhance the truth"? Let's say Mattel enhancing the truth on the toy safety fight, instead of speaking of Chinese labor and environmental concerns... Even if it's not corporately organized, it would be every employee interest that his company is best presented to the world.

As long as you'll have counter-powers like the Griffith tool, you'll keep Wikipedia a *balanced* work, which makes it partial in the end.

Let's keep an eye open.

Vodka Power!!!

and, if I may : low on the neat scale.

I'm all for cultural differences, but sometimes I wonder...

left-handed peoples' lifespans are shorter than those of their right-handed counterparts. Let them have their day...

:p