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I particularly found map #4, the Federal Reserve map, to be very interesting. An artifact of politics from days gone by the still has influence today. Does the Fed always move as whole or is there any real infighting going on there?

However with such a wealth of information I am sure as I go through the rest I will find something else to take up my day

okay, #35 creeps me out. Having read a story on how difficult it is to get people to use toilets even after the government went on a building spree I can understand how the map can look so extreme

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Regarding #4, traditionally there's a great effort to project unanimity by the Fed board, but that broke down a bit in the recent crisis, and there's always a bit of behind the scenes politicking.

As to #35, for most of the last couple of thousand years having religious prohibitions about not crapping in your house was actually a good thing. It's only with the invention of indoor plumbing that it's suddenly a disadvantage.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/06/open-defecation-solve...

Okay, if your traditions prohibit crapping in your house - no problem, build a network of decent outhouses. I mean, if most dirt-poor 15th century subsistence farmers could build an outhouse for themselves, then that should be no problem for a 21th century farming villages with government support.

The child growth stunting effects aren't caused by lack of nice plumbing as such - even moving from open defecation to covered pit toilets would solve most of the problem.

The ironic thing is that the Vijayanagara Empire in India (Peak 1500s) had extensive water management and sanitation. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayanagara_Empire). This was 300 years before London had its first severs.

And now, the situation is reversed. While Colonialism is an oft repeated cause whereby everything of native ingenuity was systematically destroyed, what is depressing is that even 65 years after Independence, Poverty & Public Health are still issues that affect India.

The individual banks are charged with monitoring banking activity and economic conditions within their districts. Their isn't real infighting, but the different banks do bring different views to the table, especially as one area of the country may be booming while another is hurting.

> how difficult it is to get people to use toilets

The mind boggles

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