Britain's internet infrastructure rates poorly, mainly because of its slow broadband speeds, but it has the highest per-person online spending and its government agencies are very active.
More than any other major European economy, Germany depends on China (see chart 1), meaning the Asian giant's slower than expected recovery from zero covid is proving painful.
And a car going five miles per hour slower than the surrounding traffic has a greater chance of causing an accident than one going five miles per hour faster.
Just at this moment Stuart heard a splintering crash, saw the bow of the Lillian plow through his rigging, and felt the whole ship tremble from stem to stern with the force of the collision.
Because the accumulation rate is so slow--- millions of times slower than the rate at which we now dig up this organic matter and burn it for energy--- we must consider fossil fuels as nonrenewable resources.