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[ October 2006 ]

Harper’s Index

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Portion today

: 1/2
October 2006 • Source: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Washington)

Portion of U.S. [Banking|banking] assets in [1990s|1996] that were controlled by the ten largest U.S. [Business|banks] : 1/4 Portion today

: 1/2
October 2006 • Source: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Washington)

Salary of the [BushAdministration|White House’s] new Director for Lessons Learned

: $106,641
October 2006 • Source: The White House (Washington)

Portion of the [IRS|IRS’s] staff of estate-[Taxes|tax] auditors that the government plans to eliminate this year

: 2/5
October 2006 • Source: National Treasury Employees Union (Washington)

Number of Americans whose past-due accounts the [IRS|IRS] will turn over to private [Finance|debt] collectors by 2008

: 350,000
October 2006 • Source: Internal Revenue Service (Washington)

Percentage change since [1990s|1999] in the number of [Business|consumer] complaints about harassment by U.S. [Economics|debt-collection] agencies

: +564
October 2006 • Source: Federal Trade Commission (Washington)

Number of the last six years that [Art|fine-art] prices have outperformed the [Economics|S&P] 500

: 5
October 2006 • Source: Mei Moses All Art Index (N.Y.C.)

Chances of a [Economics|recession] in 2007, according to a chief economist of [Business|Merrill Lynch]

: 2 in 5
October 2006 • Source: David Rosenberg, Merrill Lynch (N.Y.C.)

Average [Economics|salary package] last year among all full-time [Jobs|employees] of [Business|Goldman Sachs], including support staff

: $521,000
October 2006 • Source: Goldman, Sachs & Co. (N.Y.C.)

Percentage change in [Nevada|Nevada]

: +106
October 2006 • Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Percentage who described the experience as “among the five most meaningful‚” in their lives

: 67
October 2006 • Source: Roland Griffiths, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore)

Chances that a U.S. [Labor|retiree] says that he or she was forced to stop working earlier than planned

: 2 in 5
October 2006 • Source: McKinsey & Company (N.Y.C.)

Estimated chance, according to new [Science|fossil] research, that a [Dinosaur|Tyrannosaurus rex] lived to full maturity

: 1 in 50
October 2006 • Source: Gregory M. Erickson, Florida State University (Tallahassee)

Ratio of the estimated number of [Animal|tigers] living in the wild to the number living as U.S. [Pets|pets]

: 1:1
October 2006 • Source: World Wildlife Fund (Washington)/The Humane Society of the United States (Washington)

Estimated amount that a [Agriculture|farmed] [Animal|tiger] could fetch if [Business|sold] for parts, according to an [India|Indian] free-market think tank

: $120,000
October 2006 • Source: Liberty Institute (New Delhi)

Amount the [Alaska|Alaska] Zoo paid last year to build a [Obesity|treadmill] for its 8,000-pound [Animal|elephant]

: $150,000
October 2006 • Source: Alaska Zoo (Anchorage)

Number of times the [Elephant|elephant] has used the treadmill so far

: 0
October 2006 • Source: Alaska Zoo (Anchorage)

Factor by which the number of attacks on U.S. forest rangers last year exceeded the number in [1990s|1995]

: 14
October 2006 • Source: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Washington)

Estimated amount that tourism will add to [Rwanda|Rwanda’s] [Economy|economy] next year

: $26,000,000
October 2006 • Source: Rwanda Office of Tourism and National Parks (Kigali)

Number of “[Genocide|genocide] sites‚” that the country has opened up to visitors

: 35
October 2006 • Source: Andrea Dooley, California College of the Arts (San Francisco)

Estimated number of [Minutes|minutes] of cocoa picking required to make a treat-sized Hershey [Sweets|chocolate bar]

: 1
October 2006 • Source: Harper's research

Estimated number of people worldwide who die each year from too much [Sun|sun]

: 60,000
October 2006 • Source: World Health Organization (Geneva)

Percentage of [Food|tea] drunk in [UnitedStates|America] that is served [Ice|iced]

: 85
October 2006 • Source: Tea Association of the USA (N.Y.C.)

Percentage of volunteers in a four-year [Drugs|psychedelic-mushroom] [Science|study] who said they experienced “strong or extreme [Fear|fear]‚”

: 31
October 2006 • Source: Roland Griffiths, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore)

Percentage change since [1990s|1990] in the number of [SeniorCitizen|elderly] Americans

: +16
October 2006 • Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Portion of these savings that will be used up over the extra years the biker will live

: 9/10
October 2006 • Source: Karl T. Ulrich, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)

[Energy|Energy], in megawatt [Hours|hours], saved over thirty-five years by a [Transportation|bicycle] rider who does not drive a car

: 109
October 2006 • Source: Karl T. Ulrich, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)

Number of U.S. [Pollution|coal-burning] [Energy|plants] on which construction has begun or been completed since 2005

: 153
October 2006 • Source: National Energy Technology Laboratory (Pittsburgh)

Percentage of funds used to get [Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania’s] [GreenParty|Green Party] [Senate|Senate] candidate on the ballot that came from right-wingers

: 100
October 2006 • Source: Federal Election Commission (Washington)/Paul Kiel,TPMmuckraker.com (N.Y.C.)

Minimum value of “small [Business|business]‚” [Corruption|contracts] given out by the U.S. last year that went to Fortune 500 firms

: $1,200,000,000
October 2006 • Source: Eagle Eye Publishers, Inc. (Fairfax, Va.)

Minimum amount of USDA [Agriculture|farm] subsidies since 2000 that have been paid out to people [Folly|who do not farm]

: $1,300,000,000
October 2006 • Source: Washington Post (Washington)

Number of the 66 U.S. [Senate|senators] favoring the anti-flag-burning amendment in [June|June] who signed up as its named sponsors

: 59
October 2006 • Source: Congressional Record (Washington)

Percentage of [UnitedStates|Americans] who think that the [GeorgeWBush|president] has “a lot‚” of control over the price of [Gasoline|gasoline]

: 63
October 2006 • Source: New York Times--CBS News Polls (N.Y.C.)

Percentage of Americans in [July|July] who said the [UnitedStates|U.S.] had “a responsibility to try to resolve‚” the [Israel|Israeli-Arab] conflict

: 33
October 2006 • Source: New York Times--CBS News Polls (N.Y.C.)

[Hours|Hours] after the start of its war against [Hezbollah|Hezbollah] that [Israel|Israel’s] army chief [Business|sold] $32,000 of his stock holdings

: 3
October 2006 • Source: Maariv (Tel Aviv)

[Days|Days] beforehand that [PopMusic|Deep Purple] had to cancel the [July|July] 27 [Lebanon|Lebanon] date on its “Rapture of the Deep‚” tour

: 4
October 2006 • Source: Thames Talent Ltd. (Westport, Conn.)

Rank of the [Lebanon|Lebanese] government and [Hezbollah|Hezbollah], respectively, among Lebanon’s top [Jobs|employers]

: 1,2
October 2006 • Source: Hilal Khashan, American University of Beirut

Estimated total number of people [War|killed] in Middle East wars since [1940s|1945]

: 1,640,000
October 2006 • Source: International Peace Research Institute (Oslo)/Harper's research

Percentage change since 2004 in the number of [Army|Army] recruits admitted despite records of “serious [Crime|criminal] misconduct‚”

: +54
October 2006 • Source: U.S. Army Recruiting Command (Fort Knox, Ky.)

Factor by which the [Labor|jobless] rate among [War|veterans] under 25 of the [Afghanistan|Afghanistan] and [Iraq|Iraq] wars exceeds the U.S. average

: 3
October 2006 • Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (Washington)
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