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Three massive statues stand almost as high as the walls, elaborately carved in white stone as they guard the two obsidian gates between them.
The Strength of the Few
James Islington
The real problem with cars is not that they don't get enough miles per gallon; it's that they make it too easy for people to spread out, encouraging forms of development that are inherently wasteful and damaging..
The critical energy drain in a typical American suburb is not the Hummer in the driveway; it's everything else the Hummer makes possible-the oversized houses and irrigated yards, the network of new feeder roads and residential streets, the costly and inefficient outward expansion of the power grid, the duplicated stores and schools, the two-hour solo commutes.
In the end, the important question is whether the simplicity and ease of use introduced by collapsing many indicators into a single number outweighs the inherent inaccuracy of the process.
Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread From the Data
Wheelan, Charles
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