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To: frankw1900 who wrote (62545)	12/20/2002 5:47:41 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

Here are some interesting statistics courtesy Harpers Magazine... November 2002 Ratio of Japanese killed in 1945's U.S. atomic-bomb attacks to Iraqi children killed due to U.N. sanctions : 1:3 (see page 43) Number of reports that President Bush referred to on September 7 as evidence of Iraq's nuclear threat : 2 Last year in which the agency Bush cited as the reports' author had new information on Iraq's nuclear program : 1998 Number of "indications" the agency had then of "any physical capability" to produce weapons-grade nuclear material : 0 Number of Australians who listed "Jedi" as their religious affiliation on the country's 2001 census : 70,509 Years after inventing the Kalashnikov that its namesake said in July that he wished he had made a lawn mower instead : 55 Places by which Russia's ranking in the U.N.'s Human Development Index of living standards has fallen since 1990 : 31 Rank of the United States and Britain among nations whose residents are most likely to be obese : 1, 2 Rank of Hungary : 3 more stats here... harpers.org