Get Access to Print and Digital for $23.99 per year.
Subscribe for Full Access
Last Month’s Index
[ June 2005 ]

Harper’s Index

Last Month’s Index
Next Month’s Index
Adjust

Monthly cost of the U.S. occupation of [Iraq|Iraq]

: $4,100,000,000
June 2005 • Source: U.S. Department of Defense

Factor by which the average [Disease|viral load] in “socially inhibited‚” [AIDS|HIV+] [Men|men] exceeds that in “outgoing‚” men, in a UCLA study

: 8
June 2005 • Source: Steve Cole, UCLA School of Medicine (Los Angeles)

Number of federal benefits in the United States that are tied directly to [Marriage|marriage]

: 1,138
June 2005 • Source: U.S. General Accounting Office

Number of U.S. Episcopal churches that are now affiliated with dioceses in [Rwanda|Rwanda] or [Uganda|Uganda]

: 38
June 2005 • Source: Anglican Mission in America (Pawleys Island, S.C.)/Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles

Percentage of the world’s Anglican bishops that have condemned the U.S. Episcopal Church’s ordination of a [Homosexuality|gay] bishop

: 34
June 2005 • Source: Anglican Communion Network (Pittsburgh)

Number in Shotgun Shooting

: 65,249
June 2005 • Source: Boy Scouts of America (Irving, Tex.)

Number of merit badges in Safety awarded to [BoyScouts|Boy Scouts] since 2001

: 15,417
June 2005 • Source: Boy Scouts of America (Irving, Tex.)

Year by which every [UnitedStates|U.S.] [Nuclear|nuclear] [Weapons|weapon] will have reached the end of its original design life

: 2014
June 2005 • Source: Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Energy

Chance that a [Russia|Russian] [Science|scientist] says he or she would consider working for [NorthKorea|North Korea]

: 1 in 7
June 2005 • Source: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, Calif.)

Number of these that were in use in [March|March]

: 5,000
June 2005 • Source: Telecom Italia Mobile (Rome)

Number of lines that [Italy|Italy’s] largest cellular operator has set aside for government eavesdropping

: 5,000
June 2005 • Source: Telecom Italia Mobile (Rome)

Chance that a resident of the former [EastGermany|East Germany] wants the [BerlinWall|Berlin Wall] back

: 1 in 8
June 2005 • Source: Forsa (Berlin)

Rank, on the [Turkey|Turkish] bestseller list in [March|March], of a thriller depicting a [UnitedStates|U.S.] invasion of [TurkeyBird|Turkey]

: 1
June 2005 • Source: D&R (Istanbul)

Rank of [AdolfHitler|Mein Kampf]

: 2
June 2005 • Source: D&R (Istanbul)

Annual cost of all sixteen [UnitedNations|U.N.] peacekeeping missions currently underway

: $3,870,000,000
June 2005 • Source: United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (N.Y.C.)

Revenue from [Iraq|Iraqi] [Oil|oil] sales that the CPA could not account for, according to a 2005 audit

: $8,800,000,000
June 2005 • Source: Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (Arlington, Va.)

Estimated number of U.S. [CIA|intelligence] reports on [Iraq|Iraq] that were based on a single defector

: 100
June 2005 • Source: Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the U.S. Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (Washington)

Number of times the defector had ever been interviewed by U.S. intelligence agents

: 0
June 2005 • Source: Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the U.S. Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (Washington)

Minimum number of [Media|newspapers] in which [Denmark|Denmark] posted ads this year seeking antiterrorist spies

: 3
June 2005 • Source: Danish Defense Intelligence Service (Copenhagen)

Percentage of [Iceland|Iceland] residents who took out an ad this [Winter|winter] apologizing for [Ice|Icelandic] support of the [Iraq|Iraq] war

: 1.5
June 2005 • Source: The Movement for Active Democracy in Iceland (Reykjavik)/Statistics Iceland (Reykjavik)

Number of [Literature|books] published last year in [Iceland|Iceland] and the [UnitedStates|United States], respectively, per 100,000 residents

: 212, 63
June 2005 • Source: Icelandic Publishers Association (Reykjavik)/R. R. Bowker LLC (New Providence, N.J.)

Number of [Literature|books] registered at BookCrossing.com, so the books can be left in public places and found by others

: 1,935,000
June 2005 • Source: BookCrossing.com (Lake Winnebago, Mo.)

Number of the [Literature|books] left behind that have been from the [Christianity|Left Behind] [Propaganda|series]

: 2,047
June 2005 • Source: BookCrossing.com (Lake Winnebago, Mo.)

Months later that the friend retaliated by [Murder|stabbing] him to death with a real knife

: 6
June 2005 • Source: Shanghai Zhen Xing Law Firm

Amount a [China|Chinese] [Entertainment|online gamer] made last year by selling a [Telecommunications|virtual sword] he had borrowed from a friend

: $850
June 2005 • Source: Shanghai Zhen Xing Law Firm

Percentage change since [1990s|1994] in treatment for [Men|male] infertility and [Sex|erectile dysfunction] in [China|Shanghai]

: +100
June 2005 • Source: Shanghai Institute of Andrology

Portion of the world’s annual traffic fatalities that are

: 1/5
June 2005 • Source: World Health Organization (Geneva)

Portion of the world’s [Transportation|motor vehicles] that are in [China|China]

: 1/17
June 2005 • Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development (Geneva)

Percentage of [NASCAR|NASCAR] fans who say this

: 67
June 2005 • Source: Civil Society Institute (Newton Centre, Mass.)

Percentage of [UnitedStates|Americans] who say that [Driving|driving] a [Environment|fuel-efficient] [Transportation|car] is an act of patriotism

: 66
June 2005 • Source: Civil Society Institute (Newton Centre, Mass.)

Amount for which [GeorgeWBush|George W. Bush] successfully sued Enterprise Rent-A-[Driving|Car] in [1990s|1999]

: $2,500
June 2005 • Source: Enterprise Rent-A-Car (St. Louis)

Projected year by which U.S. Treasury bonds will sink to [Economics|junk status], on current fiscal policy

: 2026
June 2005 • Source: Standard & Poor's (N.Y.C.)

Average number of [Hours|hours] it takes to read a weekday _ [WashingtonPost|Washington Post] _ out loud

: 28
June 2005 • Source: The Metropolitan Washington Ear, Inc. (Silver Springs, Md.)

Years after Bob Marley’s death that the [Britain|BBC], in [April|April], requested an interview with him

: 24
June 2005 • Source: Bob Marley Foundation (Kingston, Jamaica)

Number of times they had used the term in the previous five years

: 483
June 2005 • Source: Harper's research

Number of times that major U.S. [Media|newspapers] have used the term “feeding tube‚” since [January|January]

: 647
June 2005 • Source: Harper's research

Ratio of [Women|women] to [Men|men] [Death|killed] in last [December|December’s] [Disaster|tsunami], in a [Polling|survey] of eight [Indonesia|Indonesian] villages

: 3:1
June 2005 • Source: Oxfam International (Oxford, U.K.)

Average percentage by which the [Women|female] [Heart|heart] does

: 0
June 2005 • Source: David Goldspink, Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences (Liverpool, U.K.)

Average percentage by which the power of the [Men|male] [Heart|heart] declines between the ages of 18 and 75

: 20
June 2005 • Source: David Goldspink, Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences (Liverpool, U.K.)
Close
“An unexpectedly excellent magazine that stands out amid a homogenized media landscape.” —the New York Times
Subscribe now
Close
You’ve read one of your two free articles this month. Subscribe for less than $2 an issue.
Close
You’ve read your last free article this month. Subscribe now for only $21.97 per year to continue reading.

Debug