The Most Equitable City, and Other Fun Facts - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

One weekly aspect of life at United Nations is the arrival of reports thick enough to stun an ox, all crammed with statistics.
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–Beijing is considered the most equitable city in the world, while Western Europe boasts the greatest concentration of cities where everyone lives at basically the same economic level. In the United States, on the other hand, the levels of inequality between the richest and the poorest in its largest cities like New York, Miami, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., are of the same levels as that found in cities like Abidjan, Nairobi and Buenos Aires.
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–All coastal cities are likely to be affected by climate change. In the 20th century, sea levels rose by an estimated 17 centimeters, and the mean estimated rise over the next nearly 80 years ranges up to 34 centimeters.

1. Is the UN wasting paper?

2. 34 centimeters is only about 13 inches. In this report, what does the mean estimated rise over the next nearly 80 years range DOWN to?

The Most Equitable City, and Other Fun Facts - Readers' Comments - The New York Times

This is one for The Daily Show with John Stewart. Bangladesh cities are described as "equitable" presumably because all of its residents are starving together while "unequitable" cities are ones where some of the citizens have opportunities for a better life. Such is the logic and wisdom of the UN committee. Well, all the Maoists had to go somewhere after China fell.

The Most Equitable City, and Other Fun Facts - Readers' Comments - The New York Times

My wife grew up in an extremely equitable city in the USSR. Everyone had to wait in line three hours a day to get food at the store, and nobody had hot water in the winter.