Harper’s Index

Projected cost of disability payments to [Iraq|Iraq] War [Veterans|veterans] by 2050, based on rates for [GulfWar|Gulf War] [Army|veterans]

Rank of 2004 among the most [Economics|fiscally] reckless years in [UnitedStates|U.S.] history, according to the comptroller general

Average estimated salary, in today’s dollars, of the dads on the ten top-rated [Television|TV] shows of the [1950s|1950s]

Points a player earns for delivering a parcel of medicine, in the [UnitedNations|U.N.] World [Food|Food] Programme’s [Entertainment|video game]

[Minutes|Minutes] that [NBC|NBC] and [CBS|CBS] spent covering the [Sudan|Darfur] [Genocide|genocide] last year

Estimated amount of [Africa|African] [Wealth|wealth] held in foreign accounts, expressed as a percentage of African [GDP|GDP]

Ratio last year of the estimated total bribes to the nation’s federal revenues

Percentage change since 2001 in the estimated value of all bribes paid to [Russia|Russia] ’s government officials

Amount it would have cost to purchase the country’s entire 2004 poppy [Agriculture|crop]

Portion of all [UnitedStates|U.S.] foreign aid that goes to helping the recipients buy U.S.-produced [WMD|weapons], equipment, or services

Length, in yards, of U.S. snipers’ [Army|longest] confirmed [Death|kill] in [Iraq|Iraq]

Number of sites in [Iraq|Iraq] from which materials usable to make [WMD|biological or chemical weapons] are now “missing‚”

Age that the [Pentagon|Pentagon] in [July|July] proposed to set as the maximum for all new military recruits

Estimated number today

Number of “veterans of the global war on [Terrorism|terrorism] ‚” that the VA budget assumed for 2005

Total U.S. spending on [Heroin|poppy] eradication and other [Drugs|antidrug] efforts in [Afghanistan|Afghanistan] last year

Months he worked as a baggage screener at [GeorgeHWBush|George Bush] [AirTravel|Intercontinental Airport] before being [Business|fired] in [July|July]

Minimum number of centuries in [Prison|prison] served by U.S. convicts for [Crime|crimes] of which [Genetics|DNA] evidence later exonerated them

Number of U.S. states where [Sex|bestiality] is [SexualAssault|legal]

Amount that [California|Oakland] residents can now be fined if their [Dog|dog] has not been implanted with an [Telecommunications|ID microchip]

Years after the [California|Watts] riots that the [Race|Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation] [IntellectualProperty|trademarked] “Burn Baby Burn‚” for a [Food|hot sauce]

Portion of [California|L.A. County] ’s [Race|black] residents who would need to move in order for the city to be fully integrated

Months that a Louisiana state judge was suspended for wearing an Afro [Hair|wig] and [AfricanAmerican|blackface] to a [Halloween|Halloween] party in 2004

Kernels of [CandyCorn|candy corn] [Labor|manufactured] for [Holiday|Halloween] each year

Number of different stories offered for sale at any one time on a [Netherlands|Dutch] [Literature|dial-a-fairytale service]

Price to listen to a seven-minute story

Number that tested positive

Number of [Entertainment|terrorist] acts that one song by the [Houston|Houston]-based rapper [Arab|Arabic] Assassin describes him committing

[Days|Days] after the [London|London] attacks that [GeorgeWBush|Bush] said the U.S. was at war abroad “so we do not have to face them here at home‚”

Months of vacation that [GeorgeWBush|President Bush] has taken in five years

Chance that a [Medicine|medical] study may be inaccurate or [Mendacity|misleading], according to the AMA’s journal

Percentage by which the average amount of [Medicine|anesthetic required by redheads] exceeds the average for everyone

Chances that a user of [Medicine|Pfizer] ’s new Parkinson’s disease drug will become a pathological gambler as a result

Percentage who hear an “upper-class‚” or “BBC‚” voice

Percentage of [Medicine|patients] hearing voices who hear a [Men|male] voice, according to a [Britain|British] study

Chance that a corporate officer of a [Business|Fortune 500] company today is

Chance that a U.S. [Business|MBA] obtained since [1980s|1980] was awarded to a [Women|woman]

Average for the dads on today’s ten top-rated shows