1. Number of packs of unfiltered cigarettes one would have to smoke daily to simulate the air pollution in Beijing: 3 2. Percent of convenience stores in East Austin, TX that sell milk: 50 3. Percent of convenience stores in East Austin, TX that sell alcohol: 100 4. In 1990, the average number of years an American five-year-old was expected to attend school or college: 16.3 5. In 1996: 16.8 6.1990 U.S. ranking among the 29 richest countries in the world, regarding time spent in education: 1 7. 1996 U.S. ranking for the same: 12 8. 1996 high school graduation rate in the United States: 72 9. 1996 U.S. ranking regarding graduation rates (among 29 richest countries in the world): 28 10. Percent of surveyed Washington journalists who thought that the median U.S. income was $150,000 or more: 31 11. Number of files on GOP activists "improperly obtained" by the Clinton White House: 900 12. Percent of Americans who think that the Republican and Democratic parties do no reflect a fair range of views: 66 13. Number of years it took radio to accumulate an audience of fifty million: 38 14. Number of years it took television: 13 15. Number of years it took the Internet: 4 16. In a ten-year study, out of 1300 Hollywood films, the number of films directed by African-Americans: 58 17. Percent of above 1300 films with African-American crews: less than 3 18. Percent of total revenues generated by the Hollywood film industry that money spent by African-Americans creates: 25 19. In 1997, percent of people who walked or biked to work in Boston: 18 20. In San Francisco: 17 21. In Washington, DC: 16 22. In New York, as a whole: 14 23. In Manhattan, specifically: 25 24. Out of the hundred firms worldwide that produce and sell instruments of torture, the number based in the United States: 42 Sources: 1: Los Angeles Times; 2-3: Public Voice for Food and Health Policy; 4-9: New York Times; 11-12: The Progressive Review; 13-15: Commerce Department survey; 16-18: Black Filmmakers Coalition; 19-23: Urban Quality Indicators; 24: Project Censored: The Ten Most Unedr-Reported Stories of 1997 |