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[ June 2007 ]

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Number of the models that showed the [NorthPole|North Pole] having [Ice|ice]-free [Summer|summers] by 2100

: 7
June 2007 • Source: Mark Serreze, National Snow and Ice Data Center (Boulder, Colo.)

Minimum number of different [Literature|books] [Business|sold] in the U.S. last year, as tracked by Nielsen BookScan

: 1,446,000
June 2007 • Source: Nielsen BookScan (White Plains, N.Y.)

Number of these that [Business|sold] fewer than 99 copies

: 1,123,000
June 2007 • Source: Nielsen BookScan (White Plains, N.Y.)

Number that [Business|sold] more than 100,000

: 483
June 2007 • Source: Nielsen BookScan (White Plains, N.Y.)

[Days|Days] after the DVD release of Borat that it became the top item shipped to [Kazakhstan|Kazakhstan] by Amazon.co.uk

: 4
June 2007 • Source: Amazon.com (London)

Percentage of [Britain|British] [Islam|Muslims] aged 16 to 24 who advocate death for Muslims who convert to another faith

: 36
June 2007 • Source: Policy Exchange (London)

Percentage who say they “admire organizations like [AlQaeda|al-Qaeda] that are prepared to fight the West‚”

: 13
June 2007 • Source: Policy Exchange (London)

Number of months that mud has been erupting from the ground in eastern Java, [Indonesia|Indonesia]

: 10
June 2007 • Source: Richard Davies, Durham University (Durham, England)

Amount that is currently emerging per day, in gallons

: 36,900,000
June 2007 • Source: Richard Davies, Durham University (Durham, England)

Number of recent [Computer|computer] models that a team of climate experts studied to assess [Arctic|Arctic] warming

: 15
June 2007 • Source: Mark Serreze, National Snow and Ice Data Center (Boulder, Colo.)

Percentage change in [NorthAmerica|North America]

: ???26
June 2007 • Source: Pulp and Paper Products Council (Montreal)

Grant that [NASA|NASA] has given an [Arizona|Arizona] [Space|astronomer] to study how to block solar rays with a cloud of small spacecraft

: $70,000
June 2007 • Source: NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (Atlanta)

Number of two-foot-wide [Space|spacecraft] he says would be required

: 16,000,000,000,000
June 2007 • Source: J. Roger P. Angel, University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.)

Chance that a watt of U.S. [Nuclear|nuclear] energy is generated in part by material from former [Russia|Soviet] warheads

: 1 in 2
June 2007 • Source: National Nuclear Security Administration (Washington)

Number of [Aliens|UFO] sightings in [France|France] since [1950s|1950], according to newly released [France|French] government documents

: 1,650
June 2007 • Source: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (Paris)

Portion of these sightings that [France|France] has classified as inexplicable

: 1/4
June 2007 • Source: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (Paris)

Cost, from a [California|California] company, for a headset that can control a [VideoGame|video game] with brain waves

: $50
June 2007 • Source: NeuroSky (San Jose, Calif.)

Number of different moods it can read, in order to select an appropriate [Music|MP3] playlist

: 3
June 2007 • Source: NeuroSky (San Jose, Calif.)

Amount that Lockheed Martin has spent so far on Polecat, a new unmanned stealth aircraft

: $27,000,000
June 2007 • Source: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company (Fort Worth, Tex.)

Date on which the only prototype crashed when the self-destruct mode was accidentally activated

: 12/18/06
June 2007 • Source: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company (Fort Worth, Tex.)

Minimum number of copies [Business|sold] of Flipping Houses for Dummies since its publication last year

: 17,000
June 2007 • Source: Nielsen BookScan (White Plains, N.Y.)

Factor by which uninsured [Child|children] in U.S. [Medicine|hospitals] are more likely to die of their injuries than are insured children

: 2
June 2007 • Source: Families USA (Washington)

Chances that a large U.S. metropolitan area has seen its [Murder|homicide] rate increase since 2004

: 7 in 10
June 2007 • Source: Police Executive Research Forum (Washington)

Rank of [NewOrleans|New Orleans] among cities with the highest per-capita [Murder|murder] rate last year

: 1
June 2007 • Source: Mark Vanlandingham, Tulane University (New Orleans)

Rank of [Houston|Houston] and [Atlanta|Atlanta], respectively, among U.S. cities with the most [Business|Fortune 500] headquarters

: 2, 3
June 2007 • Source: Fortune (N.Y.C.)

Number of the sixteen states of the South where more than 25 percent of adults are clinically [Obesity|obese]

: 12
June 2007 • Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta)

Number of all other states where this is true

: 5
June 2007 • Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta)

Number of U.S. states in [1990s|1990] and 2005, respectively, where more than 14 percent of adults were clinically [Obesity|obese]

: 0, 50
June 2007 • Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta)

Ratio in [1980s|1985] of the number of new [Housing|homes] with two or fewer [Bedroom|bedrooms] to the number with four or more

: 4:3
June 2007 • Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Ratio today

: 1:3
June 2007 • Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Percentage change since 2000 in the number of Americans living at less than half the federal [Poverty|poverty] line

: +32
June 2007 • Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Chance that the buyer of a [Housing|U.S. home] in 2006 now has “negative equity,‚” i.e., the [Finance|debt] on the home exceeds its value

: 1 in 6
June 2007 • Source: First American CoreLogic (Santa Ana, Calif.)

Percentage of [CEO|CEOs] of [SP500|S&P 500] companies whose [Housing|homes] are at least 10,000 square feet or sit on more than ten acres

: 13
June 2007 • Source: David Yermack, New York University (N.Y.C.)

Average percentage by which growth in their companies’ stock prices lagged behind that of [CEO|CEOs] with smaller [Housing|homes]

: 7
June 2007 • Source: David Yermack, New York University (N.Y.C.)

Percentage of [Wealth|white-collar] Americans who brought work with them on vacation in [1990s|1995]

: 23
June 2007 • Source: Steelcase Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

Percentage last year

: 43
June 2007 • Source: Steelcase Inc. (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

Percentage change since [1900s|1900] in Americans’ average amount of leisure time

: 0
June 2007 • Source: National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Mass.)

Percentage of U.S. households that will have a [VideoGame|Nintendo] Wii by 2011, according to Merrill Lynch

: 30
June 2007 • Source: Merrill Lynch (N.Y.C.)

Portion of all [Internet|Internet] traffic today that is file sharing of music, [Cinema|films], and videos

: 2/3
June 2007 • Source: CacheLogic (Cambridge, England)

Percentage change since [1990s|1990] in worldwide demand for newsprint

: +18
June 2007 • Source: Pulp and Paper Products Council (Montreal)
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