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May 5, 2004, 20:33 |
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"Harper's Index for April 2004
Posted on Wednesday, May 5, 2004.
Number of articles in major U.S. newspapers that have called any White House statement on Iraq a lie : 0 [Harper's research ]
Number of the five tax-cut questions asked the president on Meet the Press last winter that concerned the cuts' inequity : 0 [Meet the Press transcript, 2/8/04 ]
Average amount a Bush Cabinet member will save this year due to cuts in capital-gains and dividend taxes : $42,000 [The Independent (London) ]
Median U.S. household income in 2002 : $42,409 [U.S. Census Bureau (Washington) ]
Number of Angola's seven richest citizens who are government officials and former government officials, respectively : 6, 1 [The Economist (London) ]
Percentage change in Mexico's inflation-adjusted minimum wage since the implementation of NAFTA in 1994 : -21 [Carlos Salas, Universidad AutUnoma Metropolitana (Iztapalapa, Mexico) ]
Last year in which U.S. commercial crude-oil inventories were as low as they were in January : 1975 [Energy Information Administration (Washington) ]
Rank of 2003 among years in which the most HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths occurred worldwide : 1 [Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (Geneva) ]
Percentage discount that Lesotho's prostitutes offered truckers in 2002 who used a condom : 50 [Mopheme/The Survivor (Maseru, Lesotho) ]
Number of Danes who died from heroin or morphine in 2002 for every Dane who died from methadone that year : 1.06 [Institute of Forensic Medicine (Copenhagen) ]
Number of people in France who are injured each year opening oysters : 2,000 [Institut de Veille Sanitaire (Saint-Maurice, France) ]
Hours it took two surgeons to separate conjoined turtles in Arizona last February : 4 [University Animal Hospital (Tempe, Ariz.) ]
Number of the 76 reported attempts by bears to break into New Jersey homes last year that were successful : 53 [New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (Trenton) ]
Estimated percentage of web links for requests to "unsubscribe" from mass emails that fail : 63 [Federal Trade Commission (Washington) ]
Percentage of U.S. voters whose 2004 vote will be cast via a computer system producing no paper record : 29 (see page 83) [Election Data Services (Washington) ]
Number of votes cast in New Hampshire's Republican primary this year for write-in Democratic candidates : 8,092 [Office of the Secretary of State (Concord, N.H.) ]
Number of votes by which George W. Bush won the state in November 2000 : 7,211 [Federal Election Commission (Washington) ]
Percentage of Afghans who have registered to vote : 3 [United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Kabul) ]
Ratio of the number of Afghan men who have registered to the number of women who have done so : 10:3 [United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Kabul) ]
Amount Iraqi parents were paid for naming sons born on Saddam Hussein's birthday after him : $200 [Jack Fairweather (Baghdad) ]
Minimum number of Iraq's Saddam Husseins who have officially changed their names or are in the process of doing so : 300 [Jack Fairweather (Baghdad) ]
Monthly bonus an Indian chief of police is paying his officers who grow mustaches, which, he believes, command respect : 66c [The Asian Age (New Delhi) ]
Number of countries whose technologies are suspected of having contributed to Pakistan's nuclear program : 6 [Guarav Kampani, Center for Nonproliferation Studies (Monterey, Calif.) ]
Number of countries that have received Pakistani nuclear technology : 4 [Guarav Kampani, Center for Nonproliferation Studies (Monterey, Calif.) ]
Estimated number of years that guards at the top U.S. nuclear storehouse have cheated during anti-terrorism drills : 20 [U.S. Department of Energy ]
Year in which Citigroup formed a company called Buconero, Italian for "black hole," to help Parmalat conceal debt : 1999 [Division of Corporations (Dover, Del.) ]
Factor by which a blimp being developed for the U.S. government by Lockheed Martin exceeds the size of Goodyear's : 25 [Lockheed Martin (Bethesda, Md.) ]
Number of plaques bearing biblical verses that the Park Service reinstalled at the Grand Canyon last year : 3 (see page 27) [Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.) ]
Number of states that do not use the word "evolution" in their science curricula : 5 [National Center for Science Education (Oakland) ]
Number of states in which felons who have completed their sentence are not allowed to vote : 11 [The Sentencing Project (Washington) ]
Factor by which Florida's white defendants are more likely than blacks to get a plea bargain blocking felony conviction : 1.5 [The Miami Herald (Miami) ]
Median income of black U.S. families as a percentage of white families' in 1968 and 2002, respectively : 60, 58 [United for a Fair Economy (Boston) ]
Number of cents a U.S. woman earned for every dollar that a U.S. man did in 1983 and 2000, respectively : 80.4, 79.7 [General Accounting Office (Washington) ]
Factor by which the average pay of a pro baseball player and a Fortune 500 CEO, respectively, have increased since 1973 : 16, 4 [BusinessWeek (N.Y.C.)/Major League Baseball Players Association (N.Y.C.) ]
Maximum fine in Baltimore for dancing or not standing during the singing of the national anthem : $100 [Department of Legislative Reference (Baltimore) ]
Amount spent worldwide on mobile-phone ring tones, expressed as a percentage of the global music market : 10 [ARC Group (London) ]
Number of MP3 players designed to be clipped inside an AK-47's ammunition chamber sold worldwide last year : 10,000 [AudioBooksForFree.com (London) ]
Percentage of U.S. elementary schools that eliminated recess between 1977 and 1997 : 40 [The American Association for the Child's Right to Play (Hempstead, N.Y.) ]
Number of snowballs a New York City man sold on the street one day last December : 10 [New York Daily News (N.Y.C.) ]
Profits he reaped : $9.50"
http://www.harpers.org
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May 5, 10:47 |
So was it the Cold-Eeze? |
Nameless Again |
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2. |
May 5, 10:50 |
From the Bathroom Reader daily calendar: |
Morgan19 |
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3. |
May 5, 10:54 |
Re: So was it the Cold-Eeze? |
Blue |
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4. |
May 5, 10:58 |
pop-ups are back |
shokupan |
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5. |
May 5, 11:13 |
Badgerphone |
TangledThorns |
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6. |
May 5, 11:14 |
No subject |
Rictor |
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8. |
May 5, 11:40 |
Re: No subject |
SmyTTor |
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46. |
May 5, 17:10 |
Re: No subject |
Scottish Martial Arts |
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7. |
May 5, 11:17 |
No subject |
Chipper |
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9. |
May 5, 11:49 |
No subject |
space captain |
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10. |
May 5, 11:53 |
No subject |
space captain |
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11. |
May 5, 11:56 |
Disney |
complicity |
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12. |
May 5, 12:04 |
Take a minute |
Bronco |
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13. |
May 5, 12:25 |
Re: Take a minute |
WebDemon |
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14. |
May 5, 12:26 |
Re: Take a minute |
Fillem |
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21. |
May 5, 13:20 |
Re: Take a minute |
Fingers M |
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26. |
May 5, 13:40 |
Re: Take a minute |
ExcessDan |
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15. |
May 5, 12:47 |
Moore is a bigot |
WaltC |
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18. |
May 5, 13:06 |
Re: Moore is a bigot |
Zathrus |
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28. |
May 5, 13:50 |
Re: Moore is a bigot |
SmyTTor |
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37. |
May 5, 15:12 |
Re: Moore is a bigot |
Halsy |
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44. |
May 5, 16:09 |
Re: Moore is a bigot |
Moog Operator |
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45. |
May 5, 16:40 |
Re: Moore is a bigot |
Halsy |
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47. |
May 5, 17:34 |
Re: Moore is a bigot |
The Truth |
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16. |
May 5, 12:54 |
Re: Take a minute |
Zathrus |
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20. |
May 5, 13:18 |
Re: Take a minute |
Enahs |
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58. |
May 5, 20:21 |
Re: Take a minute |
MeatForce |
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59. |
May 5, 20:33 |
While We're on the subject of lists.. |
MeatForce |
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May 5, 13:34 |
Re: Take a minute |
complicity |
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30. |
May 5, 14:29 |
Re: Take a minute |
Xombie |
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34. |
May 5, 14:55 |
Re: Take a minute |
banddirector |
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35. |
May 5, 15:05 |
Re: Take a minute |
Bronco |
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41. |
May 5, 15:32 |
Re: Take a minute |
Halsy |
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40. |
May 5, 15:31 |
Re: Take a minute |
Earthworm |
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42. |
May 5, 15:46 |
Re: Take a minute |
Moog Operator |
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48. |
May 5, 17:55 |
Re: Take a minute |
Bunko |
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49. |
May 5, 18:50 |
Re: Take a minute |
Tango |
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54. |
May 5, 19:56 |
Re: Take a minute |
oldirish |
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60. |
May 5, 21:06 |
Re: Take a minute |
WarPig |
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May 5, 21:26 |
Re: Take a minute |
The Truth |
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May 5, 22:48 |
sucks |
Enahs |
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May 5, 23:18 |
Re: Take a minute |
Overflow |
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May 6, 08:32 |
Re: Take a minute |
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May 6, 11:51 |
Re: Take a minute |
Thirty-3 |
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May 5, 12:55 |
The good, the bad, and the ugly |
Flo |
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May 5, 13:32 |
Re: The good, the bad, and the ugly |
Fillem |
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27. |
May 5, 13:42 |
Re: The good, the bad, and the ugly |
Blue |
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32. |
May 5, 14:47 |
Re: The good, the bad, and the ugly |
Halsy |
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May 5, 13:16 |
OT |
banddirector |
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May 5, 13:36 |
Re: OT |
The Truth |
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36. |
May 5, 15:12 |
Re: OT |
Zathrus |
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22. |
May 5, 13:22 |
No subject |
OsinO |
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39. |
May 5, 15:18 |
Re: No subject |
Halsy |
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May 5, 14:13 |
Nostalgia |
complicity |
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31. |
May 5, 14:33 |
Re: Nostalgia |
Bronco |
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May 5, 15:46 |
Re: Nostalgia |
complicity |
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33. |
May 5, 14:49 |
Cola Carb Battle Already Won |
jimnms |
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38. |
May 5, 15:16 |
Bananaphone! |
Ant |
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May 13, 18:30 |
Re: Bananaphone! |
Stephen Rittenhouse |
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50. |
May 5, 19:16 |
Cold Noses |
unaloony |
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May 5, 20:13 |
Re: Cold Noses |
Enahs |
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51. |
May 5, 19:40 |
Stats |
Wiwi Jumbo |
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52. |
May 5, 19:50 |
Re: More Moore |
SmyTTor |
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May 5, 19:52 |
Re: Stats |
Halsy |
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May 5, 20:01 |
Re: Stats |
Enahs |
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56. |
May 5, 20:08 |
I hate being sick |
thwart |
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