Opinion, by Michael Royster
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The title acronym, short for “Garbage In, Garbage Out”, was once only for computers, but now describes failures in decision-making due to faulty, incomplete or imprecise data. Carioca residents have since last week recognized the cogency of this logic, as we have all seen garbage (still) in bins and garbage (still) out on the street.
In Rio waste collectors are uniformly known as “garis” and are identified by the garish (pun intended) orange color of their uniforms. In 1876 an entrepreneur named Pedro Aleixo Gary was awarded a contract to rid . . .
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