James Caan used to be a lifeguard.

In 2012, the United States ranked worst in the developed world for the percentage of its workers in low-paying jobs. That’s according to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development data.

According to the Goodwell Company, the average person will throw away about 300 toothbrushes in a lifetime.

According to a 2000 survey of about 1,000 people on 38 commercial flights, one-half of 1% said they’d vomited on the plane, and 8.4% reported feeling nauseated.

The term “smog” was coined by Dr. Henry Antoine des Voeux in 1905. It was in his paper “Fog and Smoke” as a way to describe smoky fog.

This article appears in January 9 • 2015.

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