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Harper's Index - June 2007
Percentage change since 2000 in the number of Americans living at less than half the federal poverty line: +32Factor by which uninsured children in U.S. hospitals are more likely to die of their injuries than are insured children: 2
Chances that a large U.S. metropolitan area has seen its homicide rate increase since 2004 : 7 in 10Rank of New Orleans among cities with the highest per-capita murder rate last year: 1Rank of Houston and Atlanta, respectively, among U.S. cities with the most Fortune 500 headquarters: 2, 3Number of the sixteen states of the South where more than 25 percent of adults are clinically obese: 12Number of all other states where this is true: 5Number of states in 1990 and 2005, respectively, where more than 14 percent of adults were clinically obese: 0, 50Ratio in 1985 of the number of new homes with two or fewer bedrooms to the number with four or more: 4:3Ratio today: 1:3Minimum number of copies sold of Flipping Houses for Dummies since its publication last year: 17,000Chance that the buyer of a U.S. home in 2006 now has "negative equity," i.e., the debt on the home exceeds its value: 1 in 6Percentage of CEOs of S&P 500 companies whose homes are at least 10,000 square feet or sit on more than ten acres: 13Average percentage by which growth in their companies' stock prices lagged behind that of CEOs with smaller homes: 7Percentage of white-collar Americans who brought work with them on vacation in 1995 : 23Percentage last year: 43Percentage change since 1900 in Americans' average amount of leisure time: 0Percentage of U.S. households that will have a Nintendo Wii by 2011, according to Merrill Lynch: 30Portion of all Internet traffic today that is file sharing of music, films, and videos: 2/3Percentage change since 1990 in worldwide demand for newsprint: +18Percentage change in North America: -26Minimum number of different books sold in the U.S. last year, as tracked by Nielsen BookScan: 1,446,000Number of these that sold fewer than 99 copies: 1,123,000Number that sold more than 100,000: 483Days after the DVD release of Borat that it became the top item shipped to Kazakhstan by Amazon.co.uk : 4Percentage of British Muslims aged 16 to 24 who advocate death for Muslims who convert to another faith: 36Percentage who say they "admire organizations like al-Qaeda that are prepared to fight the West" : 13Number of months that mud has been erupting from the ground in eastern Java, Indonesia: 10Amount that is currently emerging per day, in gallons: 36,900,000Number of recent computer models that a team of climate experts studied to assess Arctic warming: 15Number of the models that showed the North Pole having ice-free summers by 2100: 7Grant that NASA has given an Arizona astronomer to study how to block solar rays with a cloud of small spacecraft: $70,000Number of two-foot-wide spacecraft he says would be required: 16,000,000,000,000Chance that a watt of U.S. nuclear energy is generated in part by material from former Soviet warheads: 1 in 2Number of UFO sightings in France since 1950, according to newly released French government documents: 1,650Portion of these sightings that F~ance has classified as inexplicable: 1/4Cost, from a California company, for a headset that can control a video game with brain waves: $50
Number of different moods it can read, in order to select an appropriate MP3 plavlist : 3Amount that Lockheed Martin has spent so far on Polecat, a new unmanned stealth aircraft: $27,000,000Date on which the only prototype crashed when the self-destruct mode was accidentally activated: 12/18/06
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