(excerpted from a many-times-over-forwarded-but-not-necessarily-accurate list
 from Harper's Index -- June, 1996):


Amount the Pentagon will spend this year to equip Andrews Air Force Base  
with a third golf course : $5,100,000

Number of La-Z-Boy recliners delivered to the CIA in January : 50


Chances an American corporate executive admits to spying on employees'  
e-mail : 1 in 3

Number of Baltimore city blocks under 24-hour video surveillance by local  
police : 16


Chances a Californian lives or works in a prison : 1 in 200


Percentage of Americans who believe that "most of us buy and consume far  
more than we need" : 82

Change since 1970 in tons of clothing and footwear disposed of each year in  
U.S. landfills or incinerators : +293,000,000

Percentage of the U.S. retail price of a pair of Pocahontas pajamas that is  
paid to the Haitian who sewed them : 0.06


Average number of Americans killed each year by private citizens using guns  
in self-defense : 350

Average number who use guns each year to commit suicide : 20,000


Percentage change since 1994 in U.S. sales of genetically engineered lab  
mice : +400

Estimated chances that an American boy between the ages of 5 and 14 is on  
Ritalin : 1 in 20

Average amount Americans spend on legal drugs per second : $2,000


Number of black southern churches attacked by arsonists in the last 24 months :
 25

Percentage of racial epithets published in the New York Times last year that  
consisted of the word "nigger" : 57

Percentage in 1985 : 30


Number of last year's newsweekly magazine covers featuring women who are not  
princesses, murderers, or models : 0

Number of U.S. news stories published since 1991 containing the words  
"princess" and "colonic irrigation" : 162


Ratio of the number of biographies of Quentin Tarantino to the number of  
films he has directed : 3:2.25


Chances an American who voted for Ross Perot in 1992 can no longer recall  
having done so : 1 in 2

Votes cast last February in the Tennessee State Senate against a bill urging  
businesses to post the Ten Commandments : 1

Change since 1994 in the number of Americans contributing at least $15 to  
the Christian Coalition : -43,407