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To: goldworldnet who wrote (323059)	11/25/2002 1:37:57 PM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 769670

The grim statistics According to the National Adult Literacy Survey, 42 million adult Americans can't read; 50 million can recognize so few printed words they are limited to a 4th or 5th grade reading level; one out of every four teenagers drops out of high school, and of those who graduate, one out of every four has the equivalent or less of an eighth grade education. According to current estimates, the number of functionally illiterate adults is increasing by approximately two and one quarter million persons each year. This number includes nearly 1 million young people who drop out of school before graduation, 400,000 legal immigrants, 100,000 refugees, and 800,000 illegal immigrants, and 20 % of all high school graduates. Eighty-four percent of the 23,000 people who took an exam for entry-level jobs at New York Telephone in 1988, failed. More than half of Fortune 500 companies have become educators of last resort, with the cost of remedial employee training in the three R's reaching more than 300 million dollars a year. One estimate places the yearly cost in welfare programs and unemployment compensation due to illiteracy at six billion dollars. An additional 237 billion dollars a year in unrealized earnings is forfeited by persons who lack basic reading skills, according to Literacy Volunteers of America. The federal government alone has more than 79 literacy-related programs administered by 14 federal agencies. The total amount of money being spent on illiteracy by the federal government can only be guessed at, because there has never been a complete assessment prepared. A conservative estimate would place the amount at more than ten billion dollars each year, and growing steadily. nrrf.org * * *

To: goldworldnet who wrote (323059)	11/25/2002 2:12:23 PM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Here's a geography question for you. How many cities in China have populations of a million plus?

To: goldworldnet who wrote (323059)	11/25/2002 9:45:47 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

I think folks are just dumber all around. Every whichaway they be dumb. I mean, I'm in a sporting goods store looking at hunting junk, and I see bottles of doe pee with BIG RED LETTERS saying "DO NOT DRINK!!!! NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION!!!!" I'm looking at flies and stuff and I see bags of plastic worms with BIG RED LETTERS saying "DO NOT EAT!!!! NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION!!!!" When I was a kid, we just knew you shouldn't drink doe pee and eat plastic worms. I dunno how. I guess we just learnt it by osmosis or somethin'.