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Last Month’s Index
[ January 2004 ]

Harper’s Index

Last Month’s Index
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Number of press conferences at which [GeorgeWBush|President Bush] has referred to a question as a “trick”

: 11
January 2004 • Source: Harper's research

Number of [NewYorkTimes|New York Times] articles about [PublicRelations|Pfc. Jessica Lynch] that were written by [Mendacity|Jayson Blair]

: 7
January 2004 • Source: Harper's research

Factor by which a U.S. [GulfWar|Gulf War] [Veterans|veteran] is more likely to develop Lou Gehrig’s [Disease|disease] than an average American

: 2
January 2004 • Source: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (Bethesda, Md.)

Reward offered by the [Pentagon|U.S. military] to any [Iraq|Iraqi] who turns in a hand-held launcher and [Missile|missile]

: $500
January 2004 • Source: Coalition Press Information Center (Baghdad)

Amount such a [Weapons|weapon] can reportedly fetch on the international [Business|black market]

: $5,000
January 2004 • Source: Independent (London)

Ratio of the number of words in the last State of the Union [GeorgeWBush|address] to those in [GeorgeWashington|George Washington’s] first

: 5:1
January 2004 • Source: Senate Historical Office (Washington)

[Days|Days] in [1970s|1970] that northern [Alaska|Alaska] was [GlobalWarming|cold enough] to operate [Oil|oil]-drilling machinery without damaging the tundra

: 213
January 2004 • Source: Alaska Department of Natural Resources (Anchorage)

Inches by which the [France|Eiffel Tower] shrinks in [Winter|winter]

: 6
January 2004 • Source: French Embassy (Washington)

[Days|Days] in 2002 that [Alaska|it] was [GlobalWarming|cold] enough

: 106
January 2004 • Source: Alaska Department of Natural Resources (Anchorage)

Rank of [Oil|oil] exports and [Money|money] sent home by U.S. [Immigration|immigrants], respectively, among [Mexico|Mexico’s] largest sources of income

: 1,2
January 2004 • Source: Bendixen & Associates (Miami)

Number of political candidates [Murder|murdered] during [Colombia|Colombia’s] regional [Democracy|election] campaigns last year

: 26
January 2004 • Source: Colombian Embassy (Washington)

Percentage approval rating of [Peru|Peruvian] president Alejandro Toledo last [July|July]

: 11
January 2004 • Source: Professor Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University (Fairfax, Va.)

Amount by which 2004 campaign [Democracy|contributions] to Lyndon LaRouche had exceeded those to Wesley Clark last [Fall|fall]

: $1,900,000
January 2004 • Source: Federal Election Commission (Washington)

Chance that an American believes a “major” third [Democracy|political party] is needed

: 2 in 5
January 2004 • Source: The Gallup Organization (Princeton, N.J.)

Minimum number of [Democracy|political parties] registered in the United States

: 46
January 2004 • Source: Federal Election Commission (Washington)

Number of them represented in [California|California’s] gubernatorial [Democracy|race] last year

: 6
January 2004 • Source: California Secretary of State (Sacramento)

Number who have [Democracy|won]

: 2
January 2004 • Source: Sonny Landham for Governor (Ashland, Ky.)/Californians for Schwarzenegger (Santa Monica)/Office of the Governor of Minnesota (St. Paul)

Ratio of the first month’s sales of the new [Elvis|Elvis] 2nd to None album to those of the last album released in Presley’s lifetime

: 3:1
January 2004 • Source: Nielsen SoundScan (White Plains, N.Y.)/Ernst Jorgensen (Morkov, Denmark)

Minimum amount [Sport|boxer] Mike Tyson earned in the nine years before filing for [Bankruptcy|bankruptcy] last [August|August]

: $300,000,000
January 2004 • Source: Cyberboxingzone.com (Woodbury, N.Y.)

Price of a dozen action figures of one’s [Vanity|self], prototype included

: [Folly|$889.45]
January 2004 • Source: Vicale Corporation (Danbury, Conn.)

Rank of [Vanity|rhinoplasty] and liposuction among the most common [Vanity|plastic] [Medicine|surgeries] performed on [Men|men] in the U.S.

: 1,2
January 2004 • Source: American Society of Plastic Surgeons (Arlington Heights, Ill.)

Rank of rhinoplasty and [Vanity|penile enlargement] among those most commonly [Medicine|performed] on [Men|men] in the [Britain|U.K.]

: 2, 1
January 2004 • Source: The Harley Medical Group (London)

Percentage of Americans over the age of 27 who [Abortion|do]

: 34
January 2004 • Source: University of California Survey Research Center (Berkeley)

Number of U.S. states enrolled in the [JusticeDepartment|Justice] Department’s Multistate Anti-[Terrorism|Terrorism] Exchange, or MATRIX, in 2002

: 13
January 2004 • Source: Institute for Intergovernmental Research (Tallahassee, Fla.)

Number that have since dropped out or refused to provide DMV records

: 5
January 2004 • Source: Institute for Intergovernmental Research (Tallahassee, Fla.)

Months after a data firm was hired to run MATRIX that its [CEO|CEO] resigned, admitting to past [Drugs|drug] [Business|smuggling]

: 18
January 2004 • Source: Seisint, Inc. (Boca Raton, Fla.)/Qorvis Communications (McLean, Va.)

Estimated percentage of [Afghanistan|Afghanistan’s] [Economics|GDP] last year accounted for by [Heroin|opium] exports

: 39
January 2004 • Source: International Monetary Fund (Washington)

Ratio of the U.S. spending on [Iraq|Iraq] approved last [November|November] to total [AIDS|AIDS] spending in [DevelopingNations|developing countries] last year

: 18:1
January 2004 • Source: U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations (Washington)/UNAIDS (Geneva)

Percentage of new [AIDS|HIV] infections worldwide accounted for by people under the age of 25

: 58
January 2004 • Source: Gay Men's Health Crisis (N.Y.C.)

Percentage of Americans who say they would prefer a universal [HealthCare|health-care] system to the current one

: 62
January 2004 • Source: ABC News/Washington Post poll

Percentage of Americans between the ages of 15 and 22 who favor [Abortion|abortion] restrictions

: 44
January 2004 • Source: University of California Survey Research Center (Berkeley)

Percentage [GlobalWarming|change] in the thickness of the [Arctic|Arctic] [Ice|ice] pack since the [1960s|1960s]

: ???40
January 2004 • Source: Center for Global Change and Arctic System Research (Fairbanks, Alaska)

Estimated number of times a one-year-old was bitten by his peers at a [Croatia|Croatian] [Education|day-care center] one morning last [Fall|fall]

: 30
January 2004 • Source: Croatian Embassy (Washington)

Percentage change since [1990s|1994] in the annual budget of the [UnitedNations|U.N.’s] Balkan war-[Crime|crimes] tribunal

: +780
January 2004 • Source: United Nations (N.Y.C.)

Estimated number of people currently imprisoned in [Uzbekistan|Uzbekistan] for their [Religion|religious] or political beliefs

: 6,500
January 2004 • Source: Human Rights Watch (N.Y.C.)

Percentage increase in [USMilitary|U.S. military] aid to [Uzbekistan|Uzbekistan] since 2001

: 1,800
January 2004 • Source: Federation of American Scientists (Washington)

Estimated number of Americans who refuse to pay some or all of their federal income [Taxes|taxes] to protest [War|military spending]

: 2,000
January 2004 • Source: National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (Brooklyn)

[Days|Days] that the [NewYorkCity|NYPD] suspended a cop without pay last [Winter|winter] for refusing to [Policing|arrest] a [Men|man] for sleeping in a parking lot

: 30
January 2004 • Source: New York City Police Department

[Days|Days] of below-freezing [Weather|weather] last [Winter|winter] in Hell, [Michigan|Michigan]

: 86
January 2004 • Source: National Climatic Data Center (Asheville, N.C.)
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