Harper’s Index

Estimated number of people who have been taken into such detention since then

Years since the [JusticeDepartment|Justice Department] last released the number of U.S. [Terrorism|terror] suspects taken into “preventive detention”

Number who are [DickCheney|Vice President]

Number who are still in the [Congress|House]

Number of [Congress|House] members in [1970s|1979] who voted against making [MartinLutherKing|Martin Luther King] Jr.’s birthday a national [Race|holiday]

Estimated number of the twenty-five provisions in the first phase that have yet to be completed

Year by which the third and final phase of the 2003 “road map” to a [Palestine|Palestinian] state was to have been reached

Number of American five-year-olds named [Child|Lexus]

Change since then in the amount of [Gasoline|gasoline] Americans consume per capita

Percentage change since 2002 in the average U.S. price of [Gasoline|gasoline]

Estimated number of calls the line received last year from [Business|soldiers] seeking a way out of the military

[Telephone|Phone] number of The G.I. Rights Hotline, a nongovernmental service for U.S. [Pentagon|military] personnel

Average number of Americans [Violence|injured] every year by air [Firearms|rifles], paintball [Weapons|weapons], and BB [Gun|guns]

Factor by which the cause of [Death|death] is more likely to be [Violence|violence]

Factor by which an [Iraq|Iraqi] is more likely to die today than in the last year of the Hussein regime

Percentage “more intelligence” given up by [Prison|prisoners] in [Iraq|Iraq] since [Torture|coercion] of them was banned, according to a U.S. general

Minimum number of [AlQaeda|Al Qaeda] suspects from overseas whom the United States has now “[HumanRights|disappeared] ,” by legal standards

Percentage of [Pentagon|Pentagon] [Corruption|contracts] since [1990s|1998] that have been awarded on a no-bid basis

Portion of [Germany|German] trash that does

Meters of the [BerlinWall|Berlin Wall] rebuilt by an entrepreneur last year as a “monument to peace”

Minimum number of [Animal|wild boar] living in [Berlin|Berlin]

Total number of [Cat|cats] that entered the Cat Fanciers’ Association 2004 “Best Cat in Championship” competition

Points by which a [Cat|cat] named [ColinPowell|Colin Powell] defeated the runner-up

Average number of [Suicide|suicides] per 100,000 residents in states carried by [GeorgeWBush|President Bush] in [November|November]

Average number of [Suicide|suicides] in states carried by [JohnKerry|John Kerry]

[Hours|Hours] after [JohnKerry|Kerry] conceded that a [NewYorkCity|New Yorker] posted a personal ad seeking a [GeorgeWBush|Bush] supporter for a “fair, physical fight”

Number of people who volunteered within twenty-four [Hours|hours]

Number who asked to watch

Portion of [Britain|British] trash that ends up in landfills

Percentage by which they are less likely to make regular visits

Percentage by which [Britain|British] [College|university] graduates are less likely than non-graduates to [Telephone|phone] their [Motherhood|mothers] regularly

Chance that a [Japan|Japanese] grade-school [Student|student] reports never having seen a [Sun|sunrise] or sunset

Estimated number of different languages spoken at home by [Alaska|Alaskan] schoolchildren

Population per square mile of that territory, the Nunavut region of [Canada|Canada]

Number of states, provinces, or territories of the [UnitedStates|United States], [Canada|Canada], and [Mexico|Mexico] that lack a [McDonalds|McDonald’s]

Rank of [Business|Wal-Mart] among [Mexico|Mexico’s] largest private [Jobs|employers]

Ratio of the number of people in [Haiti|Haiti] to the number of permanent full-time [Jobs|jobs] there

Percentage of [SouthAfrica|South African] [Agriculture|farmland] owned by [Race|whites] in [1990s|1994] and today, respectively