{"id":1493,"date":"2005-09-15T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/something-to-make-your-thursday-go-by-faster\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:56:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:56:56","slug":"something-to-make-your-thursday-go-by-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/09\/15\/something-to-make-your-thursday-go-by-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Something to make your Thursday go by faster"},"content":{"rendered":"


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<\/A>Number of new U.S. soldiers the Army<\/A> would need in 2006 to replenish ranks abroad : 80,000<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[U.S. Army Recruiting Command (Fort Knox, Ky.)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Percentage of this goal it expects to meet : 9.9<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[U.S. Army Recruiting Command (Fort Knox, Ky.)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Percentage change since 1996 in the average recruitment cost per new U.S. soldier<\/A> : +84<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[U.S. Army Recruiting Command (Fort Knox, Ky.)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Number of killed or captured suspects reported so far by U.S. media to be Al Qaeda<\/A>\u2019s \u201cnumber 3\u201d man : 4<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Harper’s research]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Minimum number of people convicted on \u201cterrorism<\/A>-related charges\u201d since 2001, according to Alberto Gonzales<\/A> in April : 200<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[U.S. Department of Justice]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Actual number convicted on charges related to terrorism<\/A> or national security : 39 (see page 48)<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Dan Eggen, Washington Post]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Number of Iraqi<\/A> troops that have been \u201ctrained and equipped,\u201d according to President Bush in April : 150,000<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[White House (Washington)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Number that the U.S. military<\/A> considers ready to deploy independently : 1,500<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[U.S. Military Combined Press Information Center (Baghdad)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Number of members of the Iraqi<\/A> parliament who worship not only Muhammad but a fallen angel named Lucifer<\/A> : 3<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Verlag Denge Ezidiyan (Oldenburg, Germany)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Acres in Israel<\/A> to which a born-again Christian from Texas bought oil-exploration rights in 2000 : 96,000<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. (Dallas)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Chapter and verse of Deuteronomy that he says predicts his success, because of the phrase, \u201clet him dip his foot in oil\u201d : 33:24<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. (Dallas)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Number of Palestinian<\/A> communities that will be surrounded by the new Israel<\/A> security fence on at least three sides : 53<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[B’Tselem (Jerusalem)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Chance that a German<\/A> says Israel<\/A>\u2019s treatment of Palestinians<\/A> is the same \u201cin principle\u201d as how Nazis<\/A> treated Jews<\/A> : 1 in 2<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Institut f\u00fcr interdisziplin\u00e4re Konflikt und Gewaltforschung (Bielefeld, Germany)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Factor by which the unemployment rate among Jewish<\/A> immigrants to Germany<\/A> exceeds the national average : 3.5<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum (Potsdam, Germany)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Percentage of Germans<\/A> who say, about the Nazi era<\/A>, that \u201cone should not always poke around in old wounds\u201d : 60<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[TNS Emnid (Bielefeld, Germany)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Selling price in June for a bar of soap allegedly made from the liposuctioned fat of Silvio Berlusconi<\/A> : $18,000<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Galerie Nicola von Senger (Zurich)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Number of Pepsi products plainly visible in a May TV ad for Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/A> : 5<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Harper’s research]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Ratio of the projected U.S. ad revenue of Google and Yahoo!<\/A> this year to that of NBC, CBS, and ABC<\/A> in primetime : 1:1<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[eMarketer (N.Y.C.)\/”Jack Myers Report”(N.Y.C.)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Amount that the Catholic Church<\/A> spent in Britain<\/A> this summer advertising for new priests on bar coasters : $1,100<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[National Office for Vocation (London)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Number of New Orleans<\/A> bars visited this spring by an undercover team investigating racial<\/A> discrimination : 40<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (New Orleans)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Percentage of the bars that charged black customers more than white customers : 40<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (New Orleans)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Amount recouped by the U.S. government in institutional fraud cases since 1986 : $8,000,000,000<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[U.S. Department of Justice]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Amount that whistleblowers received as a cut of this : $1,300,000,000<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[U.S. Department of Justice]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Chance that a U.S. company monitors the emails<\/A> of at least some employees : 1 in 3<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Proofpoint, Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Chance that it has fired an employee for violation of email policies : 1 in 4<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Proofpoint, Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Factor by which the expulsion rate in U.S. preschools<\/A> last year exceeded the rate in grades K\u201212 : 3<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Walter Gilliam, Yale Child Study Center (New Haven, Conn.)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Average amount of sugar<\/A> consumed each year by a U.S. preschooler, expressed as a percentage of body weight : 149<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta)\/U.S. Department of Agriculture]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Estimated total number of tons by which American adults are overweight<\/A> : 1,180,000<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Harper’s research]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Total weight, in tons, of the population of the Los Angeles<\/A> metropolitan area : 883,000<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Harper’s research]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Number of U.S. cities that have agreed to meet the Kyoto Protocols<\/A> on global warming : 166<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Office of the Mayor (Seattle)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Average number of times each day that aircrafts intrude into D.C.<\/A>-area restricted flight zones : 2<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Federal Aviation Administration (Washington)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Days it took a Nepali Sherpa in May to crawl the length of Manhattan<\/A> : 6<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[L. G. Khambache Sherpa (Brooklyn)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Fine levied last year on a restaurant in southwest China<\/A> for serving sushi<\/A> atop naked women<\/A> : $242<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Kunming Xishan District Bureau of Health]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Percentage of the world\u2019s cell phone<\/A> users who say they have interrupted sex<\/A> to answer a call : 14<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[BBDO Worldwide (N.Y.C.)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Percentage of newlywed couples<\/A> who report having had a physically violent fight in the year before marriage : 37<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Kenneth Leonard and Julie Schumacher, Research Institute on Addictions (Buffalo)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Number of Viagra<\/A> users who have reported becoming blind<\/A> from the drug : 38<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Rockville, Md.)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Number of corpses<\/A> shipped<\/A> on Delta Air Lines<\/A> last year : 42,175<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

<\/A>Amount that Northwest Airlines<\/A> expects to save each year by eliminating free magazines on flights : $565,000<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Northwest Airlines (Minneapolis)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>Amount by eliminating free pretzels : $2,000,000<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>[Northwest Airlines (Minneapolis)]<\/SPAN><\/SPAN> <\/SPAN>
\nFrom http:\/\/harpers.org\/HarpersIndex2005-08.html
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