According to the National Science Board, ten Asian nations have increased their research and development expenditures to equal ours.
A Chinese middle class is emerging, but how long will it take to equal ours and at what cost does fostering it come?
The Agriculture Department requires foreign companies exporting food to the United States to have a food safety system equal to ours, and can inspect overseas plants.
James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, told a British newspaper that Africans' intelligence was "not really" equal to "ours", and implied that black people made disappointing employees.
And what makes you believe you have any right to hold it equal to ours?
Just as it is certain that within most of our lifetimes we'll be consuming less than we do now, it is also certain that per capita consumption rates in many developing countries will one day be more nearly equal to ours.
"I think it was John Updike who said something like, 'We've been here for about three billion years, why did nothing really significant happen to us physically until about 70,000 years ago?" "Is he saying maybe there was something half a billion years ago which was a civilisation equal to ours?
What would happen if we respected ourselves and our partners enough to give us all room to grow in whatever direction we need, without worrying that if a partner chooses a different definition of happiness, it will equal killing ours?
This is in contradiction to the cited North American studies, although their toxicity was equal to ours.
"In a democratic society such as ours, equal opportunity is expressed constantly," Professor Ohlin told The New York Post in 1961.
One measure of how children have tumbled as a priority in America is that in 1960 we ranked 12th in infant mortality among nations in the world, while now 40 nations have infant mortality rates better than ours or equal to it.
