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Derek Thompson - Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for the website.
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He is a visiting research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget at the New America Foundation. Derek has also written for Slate, BusinessWeek, and the Daily Beast. He has appeared as a guest on radio and television networks, including NPR, the BBC, CNBC, and MSNBC.

Map of the Day: This Is What Global Alcohol Consumption Looks Like

By Derek Thompson
Feb 16 2011, 3:00 PM ET Comment

Moldovans are the most bibulous nation in the world, gulping more than 18 liters per person every year, according to a new report from the WHO. The world of alcoholism in a sentence is: Europeans drink a lot of booze, and the Arab-Islamic world does not.


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