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[ September 2006 ]

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Number of [Pentagon|Pentagon] [Jobs|employees] who had such degrees on their r?sum?s, in a recent [Congress|congressional] study

: 257
September 2006 • Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office

Estimated number of [Women|female] fetuses that have been selectively aborted there since then

: 4,500,000
September 2006 • Source: Prabhat Jha, Center for Global Health Research (Toronto)

Change, in hertz, in the average pitch of [Australia|Australian] [Women|women]’s voices since [1940s|1945]

: ???23
September 2006 • Source: Cecilia Pemberton (Sydney)

Factor by which the combined [Genetics|genetic] content of bacteria in a human digestive tract exceeds that of the human genome

: 100
September 2006 • Source: Steven R. Gill, The Institute for Genomic Research (Rockville, Md.)

Percentage of [Medicine|pharmaceutical] trials in [1990s|1997] that were performed in the developing world

: 3
September 2006 • Source: Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (Boston)

Percentage today

: 18
September 2006 • Source: Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (Boston)

Minimum number of nations in which more than half of all [Technology|software] is [Piracy|pirated]

: 65
September 2006 • Source: Business Software Alliance (Washington)

Number of [Education|schools] and publishers that subscribe to a [California|California] company’s [Mendacity|plagiarism]-detecting database

: 5,000
September 2006 • Source: Turnitin (Oakland)

Chances that a [College|college] paper today is [Mendacity|plagiarized] at least in part, according to a study using the database

: 3 in 10
September 2006 • Source: Turnitin (Oakland)

Estimated number of Americans who get [Education|degrees] each year from nonaccredited “diploma mills‚”

: 100,000
September 2006 • Source: Allen Ezell (Apollo Beach, Fla.)/George Gollin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Number of [Justice|convictions] that have been handed down so far under [India|India’s] [1990s|1996] law to ban [Sex|sex]-determination tests

: 1
September 2006 • Source: U.N. Population Fund (N.Y.C.)

Chances that a recent graduate from a U.S. four-year [College|college] has attended more than one institution

: 3 in 5
September 2006 • Source: National Center for Education Statistics (Washington)

Minimum number of [Literature|books] in [Harvard|Harvard]’s libraries that are bound in human flesh

: 2
September 2006 • Source: Harvard Law School Library (Cambridge, Mass.)/Houghton Library (Cambridge, Mass.)

Age at which consensual [Sex|sex] should be legal, according to the platform of a new political party of [Netherlands|Dutch] [SexualAssault|pedophiles]

: 12
September 2006 • Source: Naastenliefde, Vrijheid & Diversiteit (Leiden, The Netherlands)

Year by which humans will “be having [Sex|sex] with [Robot|robots],‚” according to the head of the [Europe|European] Robotics Research Network

: 2011
September 2006 • Source: Henrik I. Christensen (Stockholm)

Months that an [Idaho|Idaho] [Men|man] has [Folly|checked out] his library’s [Literature|copy] of The Joy of [Homosexuality|Gay] [Sex|Sex], to prevent others from seeing it

: 7
September 2006 • Source: Randy Jackson (Nampa, Idaho)

Number of additional copies that the library has received unsolicited since this was first reported

: 7
September 2006 • Source: Nampa Public Library (Nampa, Idaho)

Minimum number of different vertebrate [LivingOrganism|species] that have [Homosexuality|homosexual] [Sex|sex]

: 300
September 2006 • Source: Joan Roughgarden, Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.)

Typical length, in [Minutes|minutes], of [Homosexuality|all-male] [Animal|dolphin] [Sex|orgies]

: 20
September 2006 • Source: Janet Mann, Georgetown University (Washington)

Chance that a [Britain|British] [Animal|veterinarian] says he or she has treated a [Alcohol|drunk] [Dog|dog]

: 1 in 4
September 2006 • Source: Halifax Pet Insurance (West Yorkshire, U.K.)

Number of troops that [China|China] has contributed to current [UnitedNations|U.N.] peacekeeping missions

: 1,408
September 2006 • Source: U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations (N.Y.C.)

Percentage who think this today

: 80
September 2006 • Source: New York Times--CBS News Poll (N.Y.C.)

Percentage of U.S. [Economics|income] in [1980s|1983] and today, respectively, that went to the top 1 percent of earners

: 9, 16
September 2006 • Source: National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Mass.)

Average income of an [AfricanAmerican|African American] today, expressed as a percentage of the average [Economics|income] of a [Caucasian|white] American

: 74
September 2006 • Source: Pew Hispanic Center (Washington)

Average income of an American [Child|child] of [Mexico|Mexican] [Immigration|immigrants], expressed in the same terms

: 71
September 2006 • Source: Pew Hispanic Center (Washington)

Chance that an article in the top U.S. [Media|newsweeklies] last year was about a [Race|Latino] or [Hispanic|Latinos]

: 1 in 100
September 2006 • Source: National Association of Hispanic Journalists (Washington)

Chances that an article about a [Race|Latino] or [Hispanic|Latinos] was about [Immigration|immigration]

: 2 in 3
September 2006 • Source: National Association of Hispanic Journalists (Washington)

Chance that a federal [Prison|prisoner] in the [UnitedStates|United States] is a noncitizen

: 1 in 5
September 2006 • Source: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Percentage change since [1990s|1991] in the average fee charged by smugglers of illegal [China|Chinese] [Immigration|immigrants] into the U.S.

: +100
September 2006 • Source: Ko-lin Chin, Rutgers University (Newark)

Number of [China|Chinese] [Immigration|illegals] who have been caught by the United States but China has so far refused to take back

: 39,000
September 2006 • Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Percentage of Americans in [1980s|1983] who thought it was “possible to start out [Poverty|poor] in this country… and become [Wealth|rich]‚”

: 57
September 2006 • Source: New York Times--CBS News Poll (N.Y.C.)

Number from the other permanent members of the [UnitedNations|U.N. Security Council] combined

: 822
September 2006 • Source: U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations (N.Y.C.)

Minimum number of [China|Chinese] censors who monitor [Telecommunications|Internet] activity

: 100,000
September 2006 • Source: Xiao Qiang, China Internet Project (Berkeley, Calif.)

Minimum number of different U.S. government agencies that mine the [Privacy|personal data] of citizens

: 42
September 2006 • Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office

Minimum number of U.S. states that have received [Telecommunications|telemarketing] calls on their federally issued emergency hot lines

: 8
September 2006 • Source: Harper's research

Percentage of [RepublicanParty|Republicans] and [DemocraticParty|Democrats], respectively, in [October|October] [1990s|1994] who said they were excited to [Democracy|vote] that year

: 45, 30
September 2006 • Source: Pew Research Center for the People and the Press (Washington)

Percentage who said this in [June|June] about the 2006 midterm [Democracy|election]

: 30, 46
September 2006 • Source: Pew Research Center for the People and the Press (Washington)

Months before the vote that Rep. Jim Moran (D., [Virginia|Va.] ) said he would “earmark the [Profanity|shit] out of‚” legislation if his party won

: 5
September 2006 • Source: Office of Rep. Jim Moran (Washington)

Minimum amount that an [Arkansas|Arkansas] mayor has discounted a [Prostitute|prostitute’s] city water bill since 2004 in exchange for [Sex|sex]

: $790
September 2006 • Source: Scott County Prosecutor's Office (Waldron, Ark.)

Rank of [AIDS|AIDS] and pregnancy, respectively, among the top causes of [Medicine|death] worldwide for [Girl|girls] aged 10 to 19

: 1,2
September 2006 • Source: World Health Organization (Geneva)
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