Now i's time for Know & Tell
("Black Girl")--the full identification given to the only black student in a National Honor Society yearbook-photo caption at a Texas high-school. All the white students in the picture were named.
(26%)--percentage of popular 14-year-olds who say they've tried alcohol or marijuana, according to a poll by the University of Virginia.
(9%)--percentage of unpopular 14-year-olds who say they've tried alcohol or marijuana.
(150)--number of retail and grocery stores using BioPay verificationsystems, which allow fingerprints to be used like credit cards.
(62-811-109-949)--private phone number that Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono gave to a group of farmers so they could call him with complaints. The national media began broadcasting the number, and so many calls came in that the service was overwhelmed.
(2)--number of 80-year-old Japanese men found in a Philippines jungle this past spring who claim to be soldiers left behind from World War II.
(1 in 4)--proportion of Americans who suffered from mental illness within the past year, according to the largest-ever academic survey on U.S. mental health, conducted by the University of Michigan.
($279,800)--amount contributed to California Govenor Arnold Schwarzeneggar's campaign by donors connected to Pepsi and Nestle. The companies' products- Pepsi, Ruffles, Sun Chips, Cheetos, and Arrowhead Water- are prominently displayed in a new Schwarzenaggar political ad.
("He isn't John Paul II anymore. From now on, he's the Incredible Popeman.")--Colombian comic-book artist Rodolfo Leon, on his upcoming work featuring the late Holy Father reborn as a superhero who wears a yellow cape and green chastity pants.
(300)--number of times each day the average Londoner is photographed by a surveillance camera.
(5,000)--numbers of labs mistakenly sent a deadly 50-year-old flu virus-which killed as many as 4,000,000 people in 1957-by an Ohio biotech company.
(10%)--decline in a viewer's ability to rememberfacts when a television screen is filled with crawling headlines, sports scores, stock prices, and other infographics.
(2.7 MILLION)--number of days taken off work in the past two years by Americans to care for their sick dogs.
($185.00)--price of GhostRadar, a japanese device for your computer that beeps and flashes when it detects a supernatural presence.
(90%)--accuracy of a computer program developed at Loyola University in predicting whether death-row convicts will be executed. The program uses criteria such as details such as age, race, and gender but not details of the cases themselves.
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD WE LIVE IN.
("Black Girl")--the full identification given to the only black student in a National Honor Society yearbook-photo caption at a Texas high-school. All the white students in the picture were named.
(26%)--percentage of popular 14-year-olds who say they've tried alcohol or marijuana, according to a poll by the University of Virginia.
(9%)--percentage of unpopular 14-year-olds who say they've tried alcohol or marijuana.
(150)--number of retail and grocery stores using BioPay verificationsystems, which allow fingerprints to be used like credit cards.
(62-811-109-949)--private phone number that Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono gave to a group of farmers so they could call him with complaints. The national media began broadcasting the number, and so many calls came in that the service was overwhelmed.
(2)--number of 80-year-old Japanese men found in a Philippines jungle this past spring who claim to be soldiers left behind from World War II.
(1 in 4)--proportion of Americans who suffered from mental illness within the past year, according to the largest-ever academic survey on U.S. mental health, conducted by the University of Michigan.
($279,800)--amount contributed to California Govenor Arnold Schwarzeneggar's campaign by donors connected to Pepsi and Nestle. The companies' products- Pepsi, Ruffles, Sun Chips, Cheetos, and Arrowhead Water- are prominently displayed in a new Schwarzenaggar political ad.
("He isn't John Paul II anymore. From now on, he's the Incredible Popeman.")--Colombian comic-book artist Rodolfo Leon, on his upcoming work featuring the late Holy Father reborn as a superhero who wears a yellow cape and green chastity pants.
(300)--number of times each day the average Londoner is photographed by a surveillance camera.
(5,000)--numbers of labs mistakenly sent a deadly 50-year-old flu virus-which killed as many as 4,000,000 people in 1957-by an Ohio biotech company.
(10%)--decline in a viewer's ability to rememberfacts when a television screen is filled with crawling headlines, sports scores, stock prices, and other infographics.
(2.7 MILLION)--number of days taken off work in the past two years by Americans to care for their sick dogs.
($185.00)--price of GhostRadar, a japanese device for your computer that beeps and flashes when it detects a supernatural presence.
(90%)--accuracy of a computer program developed at Loyola University in predicting whether death-row convicts will be executed. The program uses criteria such as details such as age, race, and gender but not details of the cases themselves.
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD WE LIVE IN.
The death-row execution statistic is rather disturbing though.