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[ August 2005 ]

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Average number of times each day that aircrafts intrude into [WashingtonDC|D.C.]-area restricted [AirTravel|flight] zones

: 2
August 2005 • Source: Federal Aviation Administration (Washington)

Amount recouped by the U.S. government in institutional fraud cases since [1980s|1986]

: $8,000,000,000
August 2005 • Source: U.S. Department of Justice

Amount that [WhistleBlower|whistleblowers] received as a cut of this

: $1,300,000,000
August 2005 • Source: U.S. Department of Justice

Chance that a U.S. company monitors the [Telecommunications|emails] of at least some [Jobs|employees]

: 1 in 3
August 2005 • Source: Proofpoint, Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.)

Chance that it has [Business|fired] an [Jobs|employee] for violation of [Internet|email] policies

: 1 in 4
August 2005 • Source: Proofpoint, Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.)

Factor by which the expulsion rate in U.S. [Education|preschools] last year exceeded the rate in grades K–12

: 3
August 2005 • Source: Walter Gilliam, Yale Child Study Center (New Haven, Conn.)

Average amount of [Drugs|sugar] consumed each year by a U.S. preschooler, expressed as a percentage of body weight

: 149
August 2005 • Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta)/U.S. Department of Agriculture

Estimated total number of tons by which American adults are [Obesity|overweight]

: 1,180,000
August 2005 • Source: Harper's research

Total weight, in tons, of the population of the [LosAngeles|Los Angeles] metropolitan area

: 883,000
August 2005 • Source: Harper's research

Number of U.S. cities that have agreed to meet the [Pollution|Kyoto Protocols] on [GlobalWarming|global warming]

: 166
August 2005 • Source: Office of the Mayor (Seattle)

Percentage of the bars that charged [AfricanAmerican|black] customers more than [Caucasian|white] customers

: 40
August 2005 • Source: Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (New Orleans)

[Days|Days] it took a [Nepal|Nepali] Sherpa in [May|May] to crawl the length of [Manhattan|Manhattan]

: 6
August 2005 • Source: L. G. Khambache Sherpa (Brooklyn)

Fine levied last year on a [Food|restaurant] in southwest [China|China] for serving sushi atop [Sex|naked women]

: $242
August 2005 • Source: Kunming Xishan District Bureau of Health

Percentage of the world’s [Telecommunications|cell phone] users who say they have interrupted [Sex|sex] to answer a call

: 14
August 2005 • Source: BBDO Worldwide (N.Y.C.)

Percentage of [Marriage|newlywed couples] who report having had a physically violent fight in the year before marriage

: 37
August 2005 • Source: Kenneth Leonard and Julie Schumacher, Research Institute on Addictions (Buffalo)

Number of [Drugs|Viagra] users who have reported becoming [Sex|blind] from the drug

: 38
August 2005 • Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Rockville, Md.)

Number of [Death|corpses] [Business|shipped] on [Transportation|Delta Air Lines] last year

: 42,175
August 2005 • Source: Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)

Amount that [AirTravel|Northwest Airlines] expects to save each year by eliminating free [Magazine|magazines] on [AirTravel|flights]

: $565,000
August 2005 • Source: Northwest Airlines (Minneapolis)

Amount by eliminating free [Food|pretzels]

: $2,000,000
August 2005 • Source: Northwest Airlines (Minneapolis)

Number of [Palestine|Palestinian] communities that will be surrounded by the new [Israel|Israel] security fence on at least three sides

: 53
August 2005 • Source: B'Tselem (Jerusalem)

Percentage of this goal it expects to meet

: 9.9
August 2005 • Source: U.S. Army Recruiting Command (Fort Knox, Ky.)

Percentage change since [1990s|1996] in the average recruitment cost per new [Army|U.S. soldier]

: +84
August 2005 • Source: U.S. Army Recruiting Command (Fort Knox, Ky.)

Number of [Death|killed] or captured suspects reported so far by U.S. [Media|media] to be [AlQaeda|Al Qaeda] ’s “number 3‚” [Men|man]

: 4
August 2005 • Source: Harper's research

Minimum number of people convicted on “ [Terrorism|terrorism]-related charges‚” since 2001, according to [BushAdministration|Alberto Gonzales] in [April|April]

: 200
August 2005 • Source: U.S. Department of Justice

Actual number convicted on charges related to [Terrorism|terrorism] or national security

: 39
August 2005 • Source: Dan Eggen, Washington Post

Number of [Iraq|Iraqi] troops that have been “trained and equipped,‚” according to [GeorgeWBush|President Bush] in [April|April]

: 150,000
August 2005 • Source: White House (Washington)

Number that the [Army|U.S. military] considers ready to deploy independently

: 1,500
August 2005 • Source: U.S. Military Combined Press Information Center (Baghdad)

Number of members of the [Iraq|Iraqi] parliament who worship not only Muhammad but a fallen angel named [Satan|Lucifer]

: 3
August 2005 • Source: Verlag Deng? Ez?diyan (Oldenburg, Germany)

Chapter and verse of Deuteronomy that he says predicts his success, because of the phrase, “let him dip his foot in [Oil|oil]‚”

: 33:24
August 2005 • Source: Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. (Dallas)

Number of new [Army|U.S. soldiers] the Army would need in 2006 to replenish ranks abroad

: 80,000
August 2005 • Source: U.S. Army Recruiting Command (Fort Knox, Ky.)

Chance that a [Germany|German] says [Israel|Israel]’s treatment of [Palestine|Palestinians] is the same “in principle‚” as how [Nazi|Nazis] treated [Judaism|Jews]

: 1 in 2
August 2005 • Source: Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Institut f?r interdisziplin?re Konflikt und Gewaltforschung (Bielefeld, Germany)

Factor by which the unemployment rate among [Judaism|Jewish] [Immigration|immigrants] to [Germany|Germany] exceeds the national average

: 3.5
August 2005 • Source: Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum (Potsdam, Germany)

Percentage of [Germany|Germans] who say, about the [WWII|Nazi era], that “one should not always poke around in old wounds”

: 60
August 2005 • Source: TNS Emnid (Bielefeld, Germany)

Selling price in [June|June] for a bar of soap allegedly made from the liposuctioned fat of [SilvioBerlusconi|Silvio Berlusconi]

: $18,000
August 2005 • Source: Galerie Nicola von Senger (Zurich)

Number of [PepsiCola|Pepsi] products plainly visible in a [May|May] [Television|TV] ad for [ArnoldSchwarzenegger|Arnold Schwarzenegger]

: 5
August 2005 • Source: Harper's research

Ratio of the projected U.S. ad revenue of [Telecommunications|Google and Yahoo!] this year to that of [NBC|NBC], [CBS|CBS], and [ABC|ABC] in primetime

: 1:1
August 2005 • Source: eMarketer (N.Y.C.)/???Jack Myers Report?????? (N.Y.C.)

Amount that the [CatholicFaith|Catholic Church] spent in [Britain|Britain] this [Summer|summer] [Advertising|advertising] for new priests on [Alcohol|bar coasters]

: $1,100
August 2005 • Source: National Office for Vocation (London)

Number of [NewOrleans|New Orleans] bars visited this [Spring|spring] by an undercover team investigating [Race|racial] discrimination

: 40
August 2005 • Source: Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (New Orleans)
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