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936	May 1876 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Diplomats; Everett, Edward; Vice PDF IMAGES
409-410	February 1862 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Broadway (New York, New York); Vice PDF IMAGES

Sep 2003	Percentage of Basra's liquor stores that have closed since March: 100	Harper's Index Source: United Nations (N.Y.C.)
May 2002	Number of times Marlboro cigarettes appear or are mentioned in the film In the Bedroom: 5	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research
Sep 2001	Minimum number of baboons forced to smoke crack in a 1989 study testing the efficacy of cigarettes as a drug delivery device: 3	Harper's Index Source: American Lung Association (Grand Junction, Colo.)
Mar 2001	Chance that Vice President Cheney will have a “cardiac event” by 2005, according to Duke University cardiologists: 1 in 2	Harper's Index Source: Duke University Medical Center (Durham, N.C.)
Feb 2001	Number of Hooters girls who visited a teenage leukemia patient in a Philadelphia hospital last fall at his request: 3	Harper's Index Source: Hooters (Atlanta)
Jan 2000	Estimated number of years that Virginia used tobacco as a currency: 200	Harper's Index Source: Department of History, Trinity University (San Antonio, Tex.)
Dec 1999	Price of a bottle of Czar Nicholas II's champagne salvaged last year from a ship sunk in 1916: $4,922	Harper's Index Source: Caviar House (London)
Aug 1999	Ratio of the amount J. P. Morgan paid a man to fight in his place in the Civil War to what he spent on cigars in 1863: 1:1	Harper's Index Source: Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier, Random House (N.Y.C.)
Aug 1999	Ratio of annual per capita alcoholic-beverage consumption in the U.S. to that in Russia: 8:3	Harper's Index Source: Impact Databank (N.Y.C.)/U.S. Census Bureau
Jan 1999	Rank of the Budweiser frog TV-ad campaign, among the most popular commercials with children over the age of six: 1	Harper's Index Source: Campbell Mithun Esty (Minneapolis)
Nov 1998	Annual amount that Americans spend on vodka, expressed as a portion of the value of Russia's publicly traded companies: 1/3	Harper's Index Source: Birinyi Associates (Greenwich, Conn.)/Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (Washington)
Nov 1998	Amount for which a North Dakota town has agreed to rename itself after a brand of schnapps for four years: $100,000	Harper's Index Source: Sazerac Company, Inc. (New Orleans)
Nov 1998	Estimated number of American women arrested for child abuse since 1977 after using drugs or alcohol while pregnant: 200	Harper's Index Source: Women's Law Project (Philadelphia)
Nov 1998	Years in prison to which a South Carolina woman was sentenced for using drugs or alcohol while pregnant in 1992: 8	Harper's Index Source: Women's Law Project (Philadelphia)
Sep 1998	Percentage of Americans who are in favor of outlawing cigarettes: 23	Harper's Index Source: Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll (N.Y.C.)

April 14, 2005	Zoo officials in Johannesburg, South Africa, were pressuring one of their chimps to stop smoking.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Reuters
April 13, 2005	A new species of titi monkey, golden-crowned with a white-tipped tail, was discovered in Bolivia; it will be known as the GoldenPalace.com monkey.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: CNews
July 20, 2004	Linda Ronstadt was booed off the stage at the Aladdin casino in Las Vegas after she dedicated "Desperado" to Michael Moore; the casino's management removed Ronstadt from the building and refused to let her return to her hotel room.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: BBC
May 30, 2004	It was reported that Las Vegas is still growing.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
February 21, 2004	The president's chief economic advisor suggested that fast-food jobs might need to be reclassified. "When a fast-food restaurant sells a hamburger, for example, is it providing a 'service' or is it combining inputs to 'manufacture' a product?"	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Newsday
December 6, 2003	Conservatives were beginning to complain about the president's spending habits. One conservative economist said that "the budgetary situation is getting so off track that you simply can't propose any more tax cuts without looking like an idiot."	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Washington Post
August 9, 2003	Leaders of the Episcopal Church approved a gay bishop and said that individual churches could choose to bless same-sex unions; a group of conservative bishops called for the creation of a new Anglican province in the United States where homosexuality would remain a bona fide sin.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
June 5, 2003	Dennis Hastert, the speaker of the House, said he expected the weapons to turn up eventually and pointed out that it took the FBI five years to catch Eric Rudolph. Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, blamed it all on Bill Clinton.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

283	January 1856 Cartoon The seven ages of vice SEE ALSO: Vice PDF IMAGES

December 2009

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPERFRAUD
Why the Hudson River Will Never Run Clean
By David Gargill

THE MASTER OF SPIN BOLDAK
Undercover with Afghanistan’s Drug-Trafficking Border Police
By Matthieu Aikins

MERMAID FEVER
A story by Steven Millhauser

UNDERSTANDING OBAMACARE
By Luke Mitchell

Also: Dave Hickey and Wendell Berry