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10-25-2006, 08:00 PM
Got these from various magazines and online sources, many are from Time.
92% Percentage of Americans who say they believe in God or some other higher power.
75% Percentage who believe their family will get into heaven.
19% Percentage who believe God favors the U.S. in world affairs.
45,000 Number of jobs Ford Motor Co. is cutting (29% of its American workforce) by 2008 to slash $5 billion in costs, out of a current workforce of 110,000.
34,410 Number of jobs General Motors eliminated this year.
32,000 Number of Americans employed by Toyota.
48% Percentage of domestic content in Toyota vehicles.
73% Percentage of domestic content in Ford/GM vehicles.
$27,646 Average salary of working men in the U.S. who drink alchol, 10% higher than that of those who don't drink.
$14,304 Average salary of working women in the U.S. who drink, 14% higher than that of those who don't drink.
6,200 Number of illegal immigrants detained by Border Patrol on the U.S. - Mexico border from June 15 - September. Lowest tally since 2002.
25% Percentage of increased illegal immigrants crossing the border since 2000.
10% Average increase in a cigarette's nicotine yield between 1998 - 2004.
31 Number of states in which the obesity rate rose over the past year.
2/3 Proportion of Americans who are overweight or obese.
8.2 Average hours spent watching TV each day in the American household.
1.77 Newborn-mortality rate per 1,000 babies delivered by voluntary caesarean section.
0.62 Mortality rate per 1,000 vaginal births.
29.1% Percentage of U.S. births by C-section in 2004, up 20.7% since 1996
1844 Estimated number of dinosaur species to ever exist.
527 Number of discovered dinosaur species.
11 Number of women who have won the Nobel Prize out of the awarded 508 in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine.
2 Number of times Marie Curie won a Nobel prize, one for Chemistry and one for physics.
13 Number of times physicist Lise Meitner was nominated for the Nobel Prize, but never won.
92% Percentage of Americans who say they believe in God or some other higher power.
75% Percentage who believe their family will get into heaven.
19% Percentage who believe God favors the U.S. in world affairs.
45,000 Number of jobs Ford Motor Co. is cutting (29% of its American workforce) by 2008 to slash $5 billion in costs, out of a current workforce of 110,000.
34,410 Number of jobs General Motors eliminated this year.
32,000 Number of Americans employed by Toyota.
48% Percentage of domestic content in Toyota vehicles.
73% Percentage of domestic content in Ford/GM vehicles.
$27,646 Average salary of working men in the U.S. who drink alchol, 10% higher than that of those who don't drink.
$14,304 Average salary of working women in the U.S. who drink, 14% higher than that of those who don't drink.
6,200 Number of illegal immigrants detained by Border Patrol on the U.S. - Mexico border from June 15 - September. Lowest tally since 2002.
25% Percentage of increased illegal immigrants crossing the border since 2000.
10% Average increase in a cigarette's nicotine yield between 1998 - 2004.
31 Number of states in which the obesity rate rose over the past year.
2/3 Proportion of Americans who are overweight or obese.
8.2 Average hours spent watching TV each day in the American household.
1.77 Newborn-mortality rate per 1,000 babies delivered by voluntary caesarean section.
0.62 Mortality rate per 1,000 vaginal births.
29.1% Percentage of U.S. births by C-section in 2004, up 20.7% since 1996
1844 Estimated number of dinosaur species to ever exist.
527 Number of discovered dinosaur species.
11 Number of women who have won the Nobel Prize out of the awarded 508 in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine.
2 Number of times Marie Curie won a Nobel prize, one for Chemistry and one for physics.
13 Number of times physicist Lise Meitner was nominated for the Nobel Prize, but never won.