Harper's Index for June 2005
Posted on Wednesday, July 6, 2005.
Sources
Annual cost of all sixteen U.N. peacekeeping missions currently underway: $3,870,000,000
Monthly cost of the U.S. occupation of Iraq: $4,100,000,000
Revenue from Iraqi oil sales that the CPA could not account for, according to a 2005 audit: $8,800,000,000
Estimated number of U.S. intelligence reports on Iraq that were based on a single defector: 100
Number of times the defector had ever been interviewed by U.S. intelligence agents: 0
Minimum number of newspapers in which Denmark posted ads this year seeking antiterrorist spies: 3
Percentage of Iceland residents who took out an ad this winter apologizing for Icelandic support of the Iraq war: 1.5
Number of books published last year in Iceland and the United States, respectively, per 100,000 residents: 212, 63
Number of books registered at BookCrossing.com, so the books can be left in public places and found by others: 1,935,000
Number of the books left behind that have been from the Left Behind series: 2,047
Rank, on the Turkish bestseller list in March, of a thriller depicting a U.S. invasion of Turkey: 1
Rank of Mein Kampf: 2
Chance that a resident of the former East Germany wants the Berlin Wall back: 1 in 8
Number of lines that Italy's largest cellular operator has set aside for government eavesdropping: 5,000
Number of these that were in use in March: 5,000
Chance that a Russian scientist says he or she would consider working for North Korea: 1 in 7
Year by which every U.S. nuclear weapon will have reached the end of its original design life: 2014
Number of merit badges in Safety awarded to Boy Scouts since 2001: 15,417
Number in Shotgun Shooting: 65,249
Percentage of the world's Anglican bishops that have condemned the U.S. Episcopal Church's ordination of a gay bishop: 34
Number of U.S. Episcopal churches that are now affiliated with dioceses in Rwanda or Uganda: 38
Number of federal benefits in the United States that are tied directly to marriage: 1,138
Factor by which the average viral load in “socially inhibited” HIV+ men exceeds that in “outgoing” men, in a UCLA study: 8
Average percentage by which the power of the male heart declines between the ages of 18 and 75: 20
Average percentage by which the female heart does: 0
Ratio of women to men killed in last December's tsunami, in a survey of eight Indonesian villages: 3:1
Number of times that major U.S. newspapers have used the term “feeding tube” since January: 647
Number of times they had used the term in the previous five years: 483
Years after Bob Marley's death that the BBC, in April, requested an interview with him: 24
Average number of hours it takes to read a weekday Washington Post out loud: 28
Projected year by which U.S. Treasury bonds will sink to junk status, on current fiscal policy: 2026
Amount for which George W. Bush successfully sued Enterprise Rent-A-Car in 1999: $2,500
Percentage of Americans who say that driving a fuel-efficient car is an act of patriotism: 66
Percentage of NASCAR fans who say this: 67
Portion of the world's motor vehicles that are in China: 1/17
Portion of the world's annual traffic fatalities that are: 1/5
Percentage change since 1994 in treatment for male infertility and erectile dysfunction in Shanghai: +100
Amount a Chinese online gamer made last year by selling a virtual sword he had borrowed from a friend: $850
Months later that the friend retaliated by stabbing him to death with a real knife: 6
This is Harper's Index for June 2005, a Harper's Index, published Wednesday, July 6, 2005. It is part of Harper's Index for 2005, which is part of The Harper's Index, which is part of Harpers.org.
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Annual cost of all sixteen U.N. peacekeeping missions currently underway: $3,870,000,000
Monthly cost of the U.S. occupation of Iraq: $4,100,000,000
Revenue from Iraqi oil sales that the CPA could not account for, according to a 2005 audit: $8,800,000,000
Estimated number of U.S. intelligence reports on Iraq that were based on a single defector: 100
Number of times the defector had ever been interviewed by U.S. intelligence agents: 0
Minimum number of newspapers in which Denmark posted ads this year seeking antiterrorist spies: 3
Percentage of Iceland residents who took out an ad this winter apologizing for Icelandic support of the Iraq war: 1.5
Number of books published last year in Iceland and the United States, respectively, per 100,000 residents: 212, 63
Number of books registered at BookCrossing.com, so the books can be left in public places and found by others: 1,935,000
Number of the books left behind that have been from the Left Behind series: 2,047
Rank, on the Turkish bestseller list in March, of a thriller depicting a U.S. invasion of Turkey: 1
Rank of Mein Kampf: 2
Chance that a resident of the former East Germany wants the Berlin Wall back: 1 in 8
Number of lines that Italy's largest cellular operator has set aside for government eavesdropping: 5,000
Number of these that were in use in March: 5,000
Chance that a Russian scientist says he or she would consider working for North Korea: 1 in 7
Year by which every U.S. nuclear weapon will have reached the end of its original design life: 2014
Number of merit badges in Safety awarded to Boy Scouts since 2001: 15,417
Number in Shotgun Shooting: 65,249
Percentage of the world's Anglican bishops that have condemned the U.S. Episcopal Church's ordination of a gay bishop: 34
Number of U.S. Episcopal churches that are now affiliated with dioceses in Rwanda or Uganda: 38
Number of federal benefits in the United States that are tied directly to marriage: 1,138
Factor by which the average viral load in “socially inhibited” HIV+ men exceeds that in “outgoing” men, in a UCLA study: 8
Average percentage by which the power of the male heart declines between the ages of 18 and 75: 20
Average percentage by which the female heart does: 0
Ratio of women to men killed in last December's tsunami, in a survey of eight Indonesian villages: 3:1
Number of times that major U.S. newspapers have used the term “feeding tube” since January: 647
Number of times they had used the term in the previous five years: 483
Years after Bob Marley's death that the BBC, in April, requested an interview with him: 24
Average number of hours it takes to read a weekday Washington Post out loud: 28
Projected year by which U.S. Treasury bonds will sink to junk status, on current fiscal policy: 2026
Amount for which George W. Bush successfully sued Enterprise Rent-A-Car in 1999: $2,500
Percentage of Americans who say that driving a fuel-efficient car is an act of patriotism: 66
Percentage of NASCAR fans who say this: 67
Portion of the world's motor vehicles that are in China: 1/17
Portion of the world's annual traffic fatalities that are: 1/5
Percentage change since 1994 in treatment for male infertility and erectile dysfunction in Shanghai: +100
Amount a Chinese online gamer made last year by selling a virtual sword he had borrowed from a friend: $850
Months later that the friend retaliated by stabbing him to death with a real knife: 6
This is Harper's Index for June 2005, a Harper's Index, published Wednesday, July 6, 2005. It is part of Harper's Index for 2005, which is part of The Harper's Index, which is part of Harpers.org.
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