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Pitch
Jun 16, 2005

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Jun 16, 2005

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Anecdotally, I've spoken with some med students who put in time with a public health NGO in South America. They had enormous problems with tooth decay and diabetes in rural Bolivia. Coca-Cola was simply cheaper and more accessible than clean water, so children were weaned off of milk and straight to Coke.

Pitch
Jun 16, 2005

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Randandal posted:

I'm a bit surprised at some of the Pacific islands close to Japan or the Philippines like Bonin. Didn't the Japanese have quite a few islands colonized in that region, Okinawa for instance?
Okinawa wasn't colonized by the Japanese, unless you mean thousands of years BC. It was inhabited by Ryukyuans since prehistory and alternated between Chinese and Japanese political influence until being annexed in the late 1800s.

Pitch
Jun 16, 2005

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menino posted:

Pretty sure that Hansen, Jensen, Andersson, and Joensen are also patronymics. I'd say title.
They're old as hell patronymics that are now family names. Iceland still uses the father's personal name for the child's surname.

Pitch
Jun 16, 2005

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Hedera Helix posted:

What does slate gray represent, in this map?
Former users. Australia, for instance, used some M16s in the Vietnam era but switched to a locally-built Steyr Aug in the late '80s.

Edit: according to Wikipedia the Afghan National Army replaced its M16s with a Polish AK-derivative

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Jun 16, 2005

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vyelkin posted:

Heaven is a place above Flat Earth, could be about 4,000 miles up
ooh baby, do you know what that's worth?
heaven is a place above Flat Earth

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