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To: TobagoJack who wrote (24969)	11/9/2007 2:43:51 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217705

One of the difficulties in NZ is the vandalistic attitude of so many people who break bottles. It used to be possible to live in bare feet in NZ. Nowadays, it's not really practicable because there is so much broken glass. France is much the same. That is even with vast numbers of plastic and aluminium containers. All drinks used to come in bottles decades ago and there was very little broken glass around. My feet are pathetic these days. I used to run 10 km barefoot on footpaths and roads without problems. Now I'd be blistered and feet spiked with bits of glass. Quality of life has declined in many ways. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (24969)	11/9/2007 4:16:15 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217705

“you can afford to waste some customers with an imperfect product, because there are always another 100m out there to whom you can sell version 2.0.” economist.com that what the Chinese are doing... I did quickly reading on the report and made more sure that globalization is forcing countries to specialize. Brazil will buy tech gizmos from China, drugs from India and both will buy food from Brazil. So Brazil needs to engage only in improving food production and in the agribusiness. I think the US should engage in frmaing quickly...