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Harper's Index
Harpers Magazine 5/7/2008
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Number of U.S. presidential elections so far in which the two major-party nominees were both sitting senators : 0

Number of Senate bills that John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have co-sponsored together since

2005 : 86

Rank that the age gap between McCain and Obama would hold among the largest ever between nominees : 1

Ratio of the total donations Obama received from U.S. military personnel last year to those McCain received : 10:9

Date on which the Ku Klux Klan released a statement denying it had endorsed Obama for president : 2/25/08

Chances that an African-American thinks his or her "life will improve" in the future : 9 in 20

Chances that a white American thinks conditions will improve for African-Americans in the future : 11 in 20

Percentage of the population of Los Angeles County in 1990 and 2006, respectively, that was

African-American : 14, 9

Percentage change since then in the African-American population of nearby exurban Riverside County : +29

Number of Silicon Valley workers earning between $30,000 and $80,000 who have lost their jobs since 2002 : 62,000

Number who have been hired into jobs making less than $30,000 during the same period : 66,000

Estimated number of 1950s suburban homes
that Arizona has added to the National Register of Historic Places : 670

Percentage, in a recent study, by which the average weight gain of rats eating saccharin exceeded that of rats eating sugar : 25

Percentage of Britons who believe that Winston Churchill is a mythical figure : 23

Percentage of all articles about Muslims in national British newspapers last year that were negative : 91

Chances that a story in a British newspaper is a reprinted or rewritten press release : 3 in 5

Minimum number of world nations that had government Web sites taken over by cybersquatters last year : 3

Current annual deficit of the International Monetary Fund : $140,000,000

Ratio of the estimated number of fake doctors practicing in Delhi, India, to the number of real ones : 1:1

Percentage of Americans today who look positively on the phrase "socialized medicine" : 45

Percentage change between 1997 and 2003 in deaths from treatable causes in the developed world : -17

Percentage change in the United States : -4

Factor by which an uninsured American is more likely than an insured one to be diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer : 3

Portion of all Chinese cancer deaths that are pollution-related, according to the government : 7/10
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