5. Dugway Proving Ground, U.S. Just two months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Dugway Proving Ground opened in Utah, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Founded upon 127,000 acres, the site has grown to encompass 800,000 acres roughly the size of Rhode Island. Dugway began as a testing site for biological and chemical weapons, as […]
10. Electronic organizer – To be honest, for the last entry in this nostalgic list, I wanted to put those small electronic dictionaries it seems everybody had in the 90’s. But then I rememberedThe Wizard episode from Seinfeld, where Jerry buys his father Morty a Sharp Wizard electronic organizer, and Morty keeps referring to the state-of-the-art […]
5) Little Kids, Big Tobacco Although US law prevent children from smoking they can legally work on tobacco farms where they absorb more nicotine daily than found in a pack of cigarettes.It is reported that over 250,000 youths work annually on non-family farms for less than minimum wage.In a study of child tobacco farmers aged […]
