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Last Month’s Index
[ February 2006 ]

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Number of seats won by [DemocraticParty|Democrats] and [RepublicanParty|Republicans], respectively

: 46, 56
February 2006 • Source: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

Percentage change since 2000 in the average amount U.S. workers spend on out-of-pocket [HealthCare|medical expenses]

: +93
February 2006 • Source: Hewitt Associates LLC (Lincolnshire, Ill.)

Estimated amount the U.S. would save each year on paperwork if it adopted single-payer [HealthCare|health care]

: $161,000,000,000
February 2006 • Source: James G. Kahn, University of California, San Francisco

Average for those who are career bureaucrats

: 70
February 2006 • Source: David Lewis, Princeton University (New Jersey)

Average performance rating, on a scale of 1 to 100, of top U.S. government managers who are political appointees

: 62
February 2006 • Source: David Lewis, Princeton University (New Jersey)

Average amount it costs [Business|U.S. companies] to process a query through a [Telecommunications|call center]

: $6.62
February 2006 • Source: The Center for Customer Driven Quality (West Lafayette, Ind.)

Chance that the [CEO|CEO] will quit or be [Business|fired] within eighteen months

: 1 in 2
February 2006 • Source: RHR International Company (Wood Dale, Ill.)

Average amount the companies spend on each search

: $2,000,000
February 2006 • Source: RHR International Company (Wood Dale, Ill.)

Percentage of [Business|U.S. CEO vacancies] that are filled from outside the company

: 40
February 2006 • Source: RHR International Company (Wood Dale, Ill.)

Average percentage by which U.S. [Senate|senators]’ investments outperform the [Finance|stock market] each year

: 12
February 2006 • Source: Alan J. Ziobrowski, Georgia State University (Atlanta)

Chances that a U.S. [Business|company] settling a corporate [Crime|crime] case will illegally deduct some or all of the settlement to the [IRS|IRS]

: 3 in 5
February 2006 • Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office

Percentage change since [1990s|1999] in federal prosecutions of [Wealth|white-collar] [Crime|crime]

: ???25
February 2006 • Source: Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (Syracuse, N.Y.)

Number of workplace arrests made by U.S. [Immigration|immigration] authorities in [1990s|1997]

: 17,554
February 2006 • Source: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Number in 2003

: 445
February 2006 • Source: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Margin by which total votes for Democrats in the last three Senate elections exceeded those for Republicans

: 2,900,000
February 2006 • Source: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

Percentage of U.S. [RepublicanParty|conservatives] who report having experienced d?j? vu

: 63
February 2006 • Source: Alan Brown, Southern Methodist University (Dallas)

Percentage of [DemocraticParty|liberals] who do

: 74
February 2006 • Source: Alan Brown, Southern Methodist University (Dallas)

Minimum number of [Iraq|Iraq] war [Veterans|veterans] who have declared they are running for [Congress|Congress] this year

: 11
February 2006 • Source: Harper's research

Number of these who are [DemocraticParty|Democrats]

: 9
February 2006 • Source: Harper's research

Percentage of Americans who say that fighting [Terrorism|terrorism] should be one of the nation’s top two priorities

: 6
February 2006 • Source: Harris Interactive (Rochester, N.Y.)

Number of people whom Coalition forces have imprisoned in [Iraq|Iraq] at some point since [March|March] 2003

: 48,526
February 2006 • Source: Detainee Operations, Multi-National Force--Iraq (Baghdad)

Percentage of these who have been convicted of a [Crime|crime]

: 1.5
February 2006 • Source: Detainee Operations, Multi-National Force--Iraq (Baghdad)

Portion of [Prison|prison] inmates in [Mozambique|Mozambique] who have been tried in a court of law

: 1/4
February 2006 • Source: Penal Reform International (London)

Average number of civilian [Policing|policemen] per every thousand square miles of [Darfur|Darfur], [Sudan|Sudan]

: 7
February 2006 • Source: U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (N.Y.C.)

Number of patrons who borrowed each

: 8
February 2006 • Source: Stadsbiblioteket i Malm? (Sweden)

[Minutes|Minutes] that the library in Malmö, [Sweden|Sweden], “lent‚” a [Homosexuality|gay] [Men|man] and a [Islam|Muslim] cleric for conversation last [Fall|fall]

: 45
February 2006 • Source: Stadsbiblioteket i Malm? (Sweden)

Year that a [Hinduism|Hindu] nationalist party in [India|India] rechristened [Holiday|Valentines] Day “[Prostitute|Prostitution] Day‚”

: 2005
February 2006 • Source: Shiv Sena (New Delhi)

Price for a [Sex|vibrator] that plugs into an [Entertainment|iPod] and “stimulates you in time with your favorite music‚”

: ?29.99
February 2006 • Source: LoveHoney U.K. (Bath, England)

Monthly fee to add a “ [Sex|virtual girlfriend] ‚” game to an Ericsson [Telecommunications|mobile phone]

: $5
February 2006 • Source: Artificial Life, Inc. (Hong Kong)

Chance that a [Boy|boy] in a U.S. high school plays [Sport|cards for money] at least once a week

: 1 in 9
February 2006 • Source: The Annenberg Public Policy Center (Philadelphia)

Minimum number of American [Education|colleges] and universities that offer programs in [Entertainment|video-game design]

: 82
February 2006 • Source: Game Developer (San Francisco)

Number of registered U.S. teams in the World Adult [Sport|Kickball] Association

: 650
February 2006 • Source: World Adult Kickball Association (N.Y.C.)

Estimated amount spent in the United States each year to treat ACL injuries in [Dog|dogs]

: $1,320,000,000
February 2006 • Source: Vicki L. Wilke, Iowa State University (Ames)

[Hours|Hours] later that the sparrow was executed

: 1.5
February 2006 • Source: Endemol NV (Aalsmeer, The Netherlands)

Number of dominoes that a wayward [Bird|sparrow] toppled just before a [Netherlands|Dutch] world-record attempt in [November|November]

: 23,000
February 2006 • Source: Endemol NV (Aalsmeer, The Netherlands)

Percentage of the air-ambulance [AirTravel|helicopters] in the U.S. that have crashed since 2000

: 10
February 2006 • Source: Alan Levin, USA Today (Washington)

Percentage change since [1990s|1996] in the amount that [Business|drug] companies spend on direct-to-consumer [Advertising|advertising]

: +420
February 2006 • Source: TNS Media Intelligence (N.Y.C.)/Harvard School of Public Health (Boston)

Projected number it will count in 2050

: 1,149,500
February 2006 • Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Number of [SeniorCitizen|centenarians] that the [Census|U.S. census] counted in 2000

: 50,740
February 2006 • Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Factor by which the total amount that U.S. [SeniorCitizen|pension] plans have invested in [Economics|hedge funds] today exceeds that in [1990s|1990]

: 100
February 2006 • Source: Casey, Quirk & Associates (Darien, Conn.)
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