The structure of China's economy and the staggering money supply growth everywhere during the recession might stoke future crises.
The going rate for a kilo of Afghan poppy, which accounts for a staggering 80percentt of global supply, may've slumped this year, down from $242 in 2011 to $196.
"This year's harvest will be around 6,100 metric tons of opium -- a staggering 92percentt of total world supply.
I could go on and on about the dangers of producing and consuming too much meat: heavy reliance on fossil fuels and phosphorous (both in short supply); consumption of staggering amounts of antibiotics, a threat to public health; and the link (though not as strong as sugar's) to many of the lifestyle diseases that are wreaking havoc on our health.
Using the U.S. as the benchmark for the industrialized world, the data suggest that the potential future demand for oil is so staggering that the odds of supply keeping pace seem almost insurmountable.
It is bad because the average supermarket offers some 50,000 food items, and the US food supply offers a staggering variety of products, in the neighborhood of 800,000!
Even though China was sucking up oil, coal, and natural gas supplies at a staggering rate, he had a message for that country and the world: "The era of easy access to energy is over".
A staggering 1,719 vendors are paid to supply New York's sprawling state government with pens, paper and paper clips.
The price difference remains staggering – $350 for a year's supply compared with $10,000 for the branded medicines – so a poor country like South Africa had little choice.
Minds boggle at some of Zeta's more staggering potentialities toward eventually securing "the supply of energy to the human race for all time," as Sir George Thomson, Master of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, wrote triumphantly in the "Sunday Times".
