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Harper’s Index

Chances that the taxes of a low-income working American family will not be reduced by the Bush tax plan: 3 in 51

Percentage of federal returns audited last year that were filed by poor Americans seeking Earned Income Tax Credits: 442

Percentage change between 1999 and 2000 in the number of audits of U.S. corporations: –283

Federal income taxes paid by PepsiCo in 1999: 04

Amount by which federal taxes paid in states carried by Al Gore in 2000 exceeded federal spending in them, per capita: $6855

Amount by which federal taxes paid in states carried by George W. Bush fell short of federal spending in them, per capita: $6456

Hours after taking office in 1993 that Bill Clinton ordered a five-year delay on lobbying by ex–White House officials: 17

Days before leaving office that Clinton revoked the order: 238

Number of years ago that new energy secretary Spencer Abraham cosponsored a bill to abolish the Department of Energy: 29

Gallons by which daily U.S. oil consumption would drop if SUVs' average fuel efficiency increased by 3 mpg: 49,000,00010

Gallons per day that the proposed drilling of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is projected to yield: 42,000,00011

Percentage of U.S. nuclear power plants operating in 1996 that have since broken federal safety regulations: 9212

Number of accidents involving U.S. nuclear arms between 1950 and 1980, according to the Pentagon: 3213

Minimum number of such accidents, according to a U.S. General Accounting Office report: 233 14

Years before a British official was killed in Athens last winter that a CIA bureau chief was killed there with the same gun: 2515

Average number of people killed in Laos each year since 1973 by U.S. bombs left over from the Vietnam War: 2816

Number of soldiers discharged from the U.S. military for obesity during the 1990s: 41,79917

Minimum number of stuffed lions that Pakistan's recently ousted prime minister took with him into exile last year: 218

Declared value of the jewelry stolen from rapper Prodigy last December after he left a music-video shoot in Queens: $343,00019

Pounds of paper used to produce 400 hard copies of New York City's report on the Fresh Kills landfill's closing: 14,80020

Square miles of Quebec City to be enclosed with chain-link fencing during a free-trade meeting there this month: 221

Number of people protesting genetically engineered crops who occupied a Monsanto farm in Brazil on January 26: 1,30022

Tons of food suitable for human consumption wasted in the United States each year: 48,000,00023

Tons of antibiotics and antimicrobials given to healthy U.S. farm animals each year: 12,50024

Chance that an American's Streptoccocus pneumoniae infection is resistant to penicillin: 1 in 425

Percentage of San Francisco Opera employees who claim to have been sickened by theatrical fog or smoke: 3926

Rank of Oasis singer Liam Gallagher among public figures most reviled by Britons: 327

Rank of Slobodan Milosevic and Adolf Hitler, respectively: 2,128

Estimated percentage of immigrants to Israel from former Soviet states since 1998 who were not Jewish by birth: 6029

Percentage change since 1980 in church contributions made per member to 29 major Protestant denominations: +4030

Percentage change since then in the average amount per member these churches allocated to charitable work: +1031

Price paid on eBay last December for an eight-week internship at Marie Claire: $3,57532

Chance that a TV character engaging in sexual intercourse during the 1997–98 season was a teenager: 1 in 3333

Chance last season: 1 in 1134

Percentage of U.S. high school sex-ed teachers who say that abstinence is the only birth-control method they cover: 2335

Percentage of U.S. men who say they have neglected their sex lives because of consumer electronics: 836

Number of tries it took a blind North Dakota man to pass a shooting test last fall before receiving a gun permit: 237

Number of fire stations in Columbia, Tennessee, cited for fire-code violations in January: 538

Blocks separating Kenneth Starr's New York University Law School office from Monica Lewinsky's apartment: 739

Blocks separating Lewinsky's apartment from Bill Clinton's Harlem office: 13540



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SEE ALSO: Hitler, Adolf; Agriculture; Gore, Al; Alaska ; Animal; Clinton, Bill; Great Britain; Business; Central Intelligence Agency; Canada; Charity; Diet; Education; Energy; Entertainment; Family; Folly; Food; Bush, George W.; Israel; Judaism; Starr, Kenneth; Medicine; Monsanto; Music; New York City; North Dakota; Nuclear Energy; Oil; Pakistan; U.S. Department of Defense; Religion; Russia; San Francisco; Sex; Milosevic, Slobodan; Taxes; Television; Tennessee; Transportation; United States of America; Vietnam; War
Response: June 2001, page 86
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