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From Harpers Index

• Number of new U.S. soldiers the Army would need
  in 2006 to replenish ranks abroad 80,000
• Percentage of this goal it expects to meet 9.9
• Percentage change since 1996 in the average
  recruitment cost per new U.S. soldier 84

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• Number of Palestinian communities that will be
  surrounded by the new Israeli security fence on
  at least three sides 53
• Chance that a German says Israels treatment of
  Palestinians is the same in principle as how
  Nazis treated Jews 1 in 2
• Factor by which the unemployment rate among
  Jewish immigrants to Germany exceeds the national
  average 3.5
• Percentage of Germans who say, about the Nazi
  era, that one should not poke around in old
  wounds 60

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• Total annual spending controlled by functionally
  illiterate U.S. consumers 414,000,000,000
• Chance that a teacher in a U.S. public school is
  a man 1 in 5
• Average percentage of students in N.Y. States
  majority-white districts who graduate in four
  years 79
• Average percentage who do so in districts where a
  majority of students are black or Latino 40

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From Harpers Index

• Ratio of the worlds reconstruction aid given to
  postwar Kosovo, per capita, to that given postwar
  Afghanistan 231
• Ratio of the number of peacekeeping troops in
  Kosovo, per capita, to that in Afghanistan 241
• Amount the U.S spent last year on mosquito nets
  to fight malaria in Africa 4,000,000
• Amount it paid a consultancy to conduct social
  marketing of mosquito nets 7,900,000

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• Percentage change in the average monthly price of
  oil during the Carter Administration 85
• Percentage change during the presidency of George
  W. Bush, before Katrina 107
• Number of consecutive years that the U.S. median
  income has failed to increase 5
• Number of consecutive years that the percentage
  of Americans living in poverty has increased 4

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Source Ross Douthat, Does Meritocracy Work?
Atlantic Monthly, November, 2005.
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Sophomores Passing WASL in 2005
42.8
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Current Sophomores Who Wont Graduate
57.2
If the present situation persists.
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John Tukey Exploratory Data Analysis,
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