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- From: Rick <C45807EC%WUVMD.bitnet@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
- Subject: Harper's Index -- Fun Facts!
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- HARPER'S INDEX
- (this version printed in _The Riverfront Times_ of St. Louis, 7-29 to 8-4)
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- 1. Days it would take to exhaust Ross Perot's fortune if it were used
- to pay the interest on the federal deficit: 5.7
-
- 2. Campaign contributions George Bush has received from people he
- later appointed to ambassadorships: $900,000.
-
- 3. Number of the 32 sitting federal appellate judges appointed by
- President Bush who are black: 0.
-
- 4. Rank of Hispanics, among those arrested during the Los Angeles
- riots: 1.
-
- 5. Ratio of the number of homebuyers in Orange County, Calif., last
- year named Smith to those named Nguyen: 1:2.
-
- 6. Chances that an American is of English ancestry: 1 in 8.
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- 7. Chances that an American does not consider himself or herself a
- rock-music fan: 2 in 3.
-
- 8. Number of countries that have issued at least one Elvis Presley
- postage stamp: 13.
-
- 9. Number of US Postal Service employees murdered by their
- colleagues since 1983: 30.
-
- 10. Percentage change, since 1990, in the number of documented cases
- of journalists murdered, worldwide: +91.
-