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To: ~digs who wrote (330)	12/10/2001 3:13:59 AM
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Looped .GIF of US Unemployment : economagic.com resulting display illustrates the cyclical nature of employment

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---Selected Harper's Index Stats--- Date on which the first contract for a book about September 11 was signed : 9/13 Source: Publishers Weekly (N.Y.C.)/Editions First (Paris) Price of a 12-hour do-it-yourself anger-management course from an online vendor : $165 Source: Angermgmt.com (Chicago) Minimum number of anthrax hoaxes reported in the United States in the three years before September 11 : 175 Source: Monterey Institute for International Studies (Monterey, Calif.) Number of members of the rock band Anthrax who say they are hoarding Cipro so as to avoid an "ironic death" : 1 Source: Washington Post, 10/10/01 Percentage change between 1998 and 1999 in the number of women construction workers : +36 Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (Washington) Total new tax cuts for U.S. businesses approved by the House of Representatives in October : $146,000,000,000 Source: Citizens for Tax Justice (Washington) Ratio of the projected cost of General Electric's dredging of its PCBs from the Hudson River to its total profits last year : 1:280 Earliest year in which the dredging might begin : 2004 Source: Environmental Protection Agency (Washington)/General Electric (Fairfield, Conn.) Percentage change since 1980 in federal funding for research on renewable energy sources : –83 Source: U.S. Department of Energy Ratio of businesses to military sites attacked by international terrorists between 1995 and 2000 : 38:1 Chance that a death caused by international terrorism during that period occurred in Asia : 1 in 2 Source: U.S. Department of State Number of the world's ten tallest buildings that are in Asia : 8 Source: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (Bethlehem, Pa.) Number of years since 1776 in which no nation was at war : 0 Source: Harper's research/Correlates of War Project, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Last year in which Americans' confidence in the federal government "to do what is right" was as high as it is today : 1968 Source: Gallup Organization (Princeton, N.J.) Last day on which a total tally of those detained in U.S. terrorism investigations was released to the public : 11/2 Source: U.S. Department of Justice Number of the ten amendments in the Bill of Rights that are violated by the USA PATRIOT Act, according to the ACLU : 5 Source: American Civil Liberties Union (N.Y.C.) Number of U.S. colleges and universities that were asked by law enforcement to release student information last fall : 220 Percentage that released the students' information without informing them : 90 Source: American Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officials (Washington) Amount the Pentagon paid a private company last fall for exclusive access to satellite pictures of Afghanistan : $3,800,000 Source: National Imagery and Mapping Agency (Bethesda, Md.) Gallons of concentrated anthrax that Iraq has admitted to producing as a biological weapon : 2,245 Source: United Nations Monitoring and Verification Inspection Committee (N.Y.C.) Percentage of Americans who believe that the theory of human evolution is "probably" or "definitely" not true : 47 Percentage who believe that the tenets of astrology "probably" or "definitely" have some scientific truth : 48 Source: National Opinion Research Center (Chicago) Percentage of U.S. college students who say they intend to pursue a foreign language : 57 Percentage who are actually enrolled in a foreign-language course : 8 Source: American Council on Education (Washington) Minimum number of Saudis who have been trained in Al-Qaeda camps : 5,000 Source: Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia (London) Ratio of the number of U.S. soldiers killed by hostile fire since 1990 to the number who have committed suicide : 1:5 Source: U.S. Army (Arlington, Va.) Percentage change since 1999 in the number of bankruptcies of companies with liabilities of more than $1 billion : +106 Source: Salomon Center for Research in Financial Institutions and Markets, New York University (N.Y.C.) Amount of debt carried by New York City's government, per resident, before September 11 : $5,066 Source: New York City Office of the Comptroller/U.S. Census Bureau Number of days that E. coli bacteria can survive on polyurethane plastic : 15 Source: American Society for Microbiology (Washington) Minimum number of Winter Olympics volunteers who were rejected last fall after a criminal background check : 273 Source: Salt Lake Organizing Committee (Salt Lake City) Number of Pop-Tarts dropped on Afghanistan as part of U.S. airborne food aid in the first month of bombing : 2,400,000 Source: Defense Security Cooperation Agency (Arlington, Va.) -------------- harpers.org