Weeks the Patriot Act allowed the government this year to delay the ACLU's announcement of a suit over the Act itself : 3 [ACLU (N.Y.C.) ]
~odd, when you copy/paste it adds the source Seconds it took a Maryland consultant last winter to pick a Diebold voting machine's lock and remove its memory card : 10 [Raba Technologies LLC (Columbia, Md.) ] Number of states where a shift of no more than three seats this fall could change party control of a legislative chamber : 23 [National Conference of State Legislatures (Denver) ] Percentage of state legislative seats* that Democrats controlled in 1980 and today, respectively : 60, 50 [National Conference of State Legislatures (Denver) ] ~ (* I assume they mean state legislative chambers.) Last year in which deaths due to terrorism in Israel and the Occupied Territories exceeded those in Kashmir : 2001 [RAND-MIPT Terrorism Incident Database (Oklahoma City) ] Percentage of deaths due to terrorism last year that took place in South Asia : 49 [RAND-MIPT Terrorism Incident Database (Oklahoma City) ] Percentage change since 2002 in the annual number of attacks by pirates on ships worldwide : +20 [International Maritime Bureau Piracy Reporting Centre (Kuala Lumpur) ] Estimated number of guns that the U.S.-led force in Haiti has confiscated since Aristide's departure last February : 100 [Multinational Interim Force (Port-au-Prince) ] Months it took the force to start a program offering cash for tips leading to weapons seizures : 2 [Multinational Interim Force (Port-au-Prince) ] Ratio of deaths of U.S. contractors worldwide in the last three months to those between April and September last year : 2:1 [U.S. Department of Labor ] Value of the "political risk insurance" that the U.S. government is providing two private investors in Iraq : $30,000,000 [Overseas Private Investment Corporation (Washington) ] Number of U.S. companies whose applications for such insurance are pending : 34 [Overseas Private Investment Corporation (Washington) ] Estimated percentage of U.S. corporations that paid no federal taxes between 1996 and 2000 : 61 [General Accounting Office (Washington) ] ~ Why your taxes are so high. Percentage change between 2001 and 2002 in the number of Teamster officials earning six-figure salaries : +20 [Teamsters for a Democratic Union (Detroit) ] Number of publications on women's rights that the Labor Department has removed from its website since 1999 : 25 [The National Council for Research on Women (N.Y.C.) ] Number of days this year that the Small Business Administration's largest loan program shut down for lack of funds : 8 [U.S. Small Business Administration ] Percentage increase in the SBA's travel budget requested by the White House last year : +107 (see page 79) [U.S. Small Business Administration ] Percentage of his salary Minnesota senator Mark Dayton spends on bus trips for seniors buying drugs in Canada : 100 [Minnesota Senior Federation (St. Paul) ] Ratio of U.S. and Canadian spending on pharmaceuticals last year to the amount the rest of the world spent : 31:32 [IMS Health (London) ] Average amount an American spent on pharmaceuticals in 2002 : $202.81 [U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ] Annual spending on the Marshall Plan, per European it was meant to serve : $96.45 [George C. Marshall Foundation (Lexington, Va.) ] Amount the United States allocated this year for Iraq's reconstruction, per Iraqi : $727.27 [U.S. Congressional Budget Office/U.S. Census Bureau ] Minimum number of prisoners under the age of 17 or over the age of 70 held by coalition forces in Iraq last April : 79 [Coalition Press Information Center (Baghdad) ] Minimum portion of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison destroyed by May 2003 : 4/5 [Management & Training Corporation (Centerville, Utah) ] Amount the U.S. spent partially reconstructing it : $1,900,000 [Management & Training Corporation (Centerville, Utah) ] Number of times after prison-abuse photos aired in April that the President boasted of freeing Iraq of torture chambers : 13 [Harper's research ] Amount NBC's parent company, General Electric, stands to earn from Iraq's reconstruction : $600,000,000 [General Electric (Fairfield, Conn.) ] Price of a bleepinator, a device for TV broadcasters that "surgically removes indecent words and phrases" : $9,995 [Enco Systems, Inc. (Southfield, Mich.) ] Number of individual "songs" for sale in Apple's iTunes Music Store that consist of utter silence : 17 [iTunes Music Store (Cupertino, Calif.)/Harper's research ] Percentage change in Mattel's first-quarter earnings last winter, when Barbie and Ken's "break-up" was announced : -73 [Mattel, Inc. (El Segundo, Calif.) ] Percentage by which average earnings of a major U.S. film with no sex in 2003 exceeded those of one with graphic sex : 120 [The Christian Film and Television Commission (Camarillo, Calif.) ] Average number of "smoking incidents" per hour in major U.S. films in 1950 and 2002, respectively : 10.7, 10.9 ["Back to the Future: Smoking in Movies in 2002 Compared with 1950 Levels," by Stanton A. Glantz, Ph.D., Karen W. Kacirk, and Charles McCulloch, Ph.D., February 2004 American Journal of Public Health ] Ratio of ambient fine-particle emissions from gasoline-powered vehicles to those from cooking meat in Houston in summer : 5:4 [Prof. Matt Fraser, Rice University (Houston) ] Days after McDonald's CEO died of a heart attack last April that the firm's ex-CEO for Japan did the same : 2 [McDonald's Corporation (Oak Brook, Ill.) ] Years after symptoms of his deranging genetic disorder appeared that King George III held the throne in England : 56 [Prof. Martin Warren, University of London ] Average inches by which a British man's height fell short of an American man's in the eighteenth century : 3.1 [John Komlos, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (Munich) ] Average inches by which an American man's height falls short of a British man's today : 0.4 [John Komlos, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (Munich) ] Number of fried chocolate sandwiches served at a British hotel chain in April after their debut : 1,256 [Jarvis Hotels Ltd. (High Wycombe, England) ] Last year in which French frogs were served at the Brotherhood of the Frog Thigh Tasters' annual fair in Vittel, France : 1977 [Comite de la grenouille (Vittel, France) ] Gary Denton ~#1 on google for liberal news for a tiny bit longer _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
