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To: ~digs who wrote (286)	12/10/2001 2:54:35 AM
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---Selected Harper's Index Stats--- Number of bills to reform U.S. election procedures introduced in state legislatures since last November : 1,775 Percentage voted down, pending, and passed, respectively : 58, 28, 14 Source: National Conference of State Legislatures (Washington) Members of Congress who voted against this fall's resolution to authorize an armed response to September 11's attack : 1 Members who voted against the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution to authorize further U.S. attacks on Vietnam : 2 Source: U.S. Senate Library Chances that a U.S. soldier in the Vietnam War volunteered : 4 in 5 Chance that a U.S. soldier in World War II did so : 1 in 3 Source: Selective Service System (Washington) Chance that a foreign-born U.S. resident's country of origin has undergone U.S. occupation or attack since 1945 : 1 in 6 Source: U.S. Census Bureau/ Harper's research Percentage change since 1996 in the number of U.S. apprehensions of people trying to cross the Mexican border : +9 Percentage change since then in the number of U.S. border guards assigned there : +60 Percentage change since 1999 in the number of people who died on U.S. soil while crossing the border illegally : +56 Source: U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service Rank of gas mileage among the 35 things Americans say they look for in buying a new car or truck : 20 Source: Maritz Marketing Research (St. Louis)/Ford Motor Company (Detroit) Number of turkeys raised in the United States last year, per American : 0.95 Source: National Turkey Federation (Washington)/U.S. Census Bureau Percentage of Manhattan's population killed during the cholera epidemic of 1832 : 50 Source: Gotham , Edwin G. Burroughs and Mike Wallace (Oxford University Press) Total cumulative profit earned by the Nasdaq's 4,200 companies since September 1995 : 0 Source: Multex.com (N.Y.C.) Amount spent last year on company credit cards issued to federal government employees : $17,300,000,000 Source: U.S. General Services Administration Number of high-security federal buildings that undercover U.S. agents entered last year using fake I.D. : 19 Source: U.S. General Accounting Office Estimated percentage change since 1997 in the population of two species of vultures in India : –90 Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Number of sparrows requested by Chinese farmers in September to help end a plague of locusts : 20,000 Source: Xinhua News Service (Beijing) Age, in months, at which an infant can distinguish between a bird and an airplane : 9 Source: Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego. -------------- harpers.org