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June 2011

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Percentage of Americans in 2009 who believed the free market “is the best system on which to base the future of the world” : 74

June 2011
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Percentage by which young adults with high religious participation are more likely than their peers to become obese : 50

June 2011
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Percentage of Americans who believe so today : 59

June 2011
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Percentage of Chinese who do : 67

June 2011
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Minimum number of journalists imprisoned without charges by the U.S. military between 2004 and 2010 : 14

June 2011
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Amount of “blood money” reportedly paid to the families of two Pakistanis killed by a CIA contractor in January : $2,340,000

June 2011
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Number of homes whose mortgages a U.S. advertising firm offered to pay in exchange for converting the homes to billboards : 10

June 2011
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Number of applications the firm received in the first week after making the offer : 11,575

June 2011
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Percentage of Republicans who said in March that they fear that ACORN will steal the 2012 election for Obama : 25

June 2011
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Date on which ACORN shut down : 11/2/10

June 2011
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Number of Congress members who gave up some portion of their 2010 salary for federal debt reduction : 3

June 2011
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Total amount of these gifts : $15,223.56

June 2011
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Number of seconds it takes for the federal debt to grow by that amount : 0.34

June 2011
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Date on which Standard & Poor’s revised its U.S. debt outlook to “negative” : 4/18/2011

June 2011
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Average amount NATO spends each week enforcing the no-fly zone over Libya : $1,930,000

June 2011
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Number of times it has previously been anything other than “stable”

June 2011
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Estimated value of arms sent by NATO countries to Muammar Qaddafi since 1969 : $10,000,000,000

June 2011
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Amount of federal money that went to National Public Radio in 2010 : $2,700,000

June 2011
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Minimum amount Qaddafi held in U.S. banks at the time his assets were frozen in February : $29,700,000,000

June 2011
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To Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University : $446,000,000

June 2011
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Percentage change in domestic violence when the local NFL team unexpectedly loses a game : +10

June 2011
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Number of Germans who left the Catholic faith last year : 180,000

June 2011
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When it loses to a traditional rival : +20

June 2011
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Date on which National Front leader Marine Le Pen compared Islam in France to the Nazi occupation : 12/10/2010

June 2011
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Base hit awarded for each misdemeanor arrest in the Bell County, California, police department’s “baseball game” : double

June 2011
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Percentage of French people who said they “approved” of the comparison : 39

June 2011
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For each felony arrest : home run

June 2011
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Amount a Liechtenstein marketing agency charges for fifty people to “rent” the nation for one night : $20,000

June 2011
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Minimum hours that Armenia went without Internet after a Georgian woman cut a cable while scavenging for copper : 5

June 2011
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Number of people added to India’s population in the past decade : 181,000,000

June 2011
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Number of free condoms handed out by the Brazilian government in advance of Carnival this year : 84,740,000

June 2011
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Price for a six-pack of Hotshots, a brand of extra-small Swiss condoms made for adolescent boys : $8.79

June 2011
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Chance that a teenage girl in America has a sexually transmitted infection : 1 in 4

June 2011
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Average age at which women consider themselves “old,” according to a study by a British funeral planning company : 29

June 2011
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At which men do : 58

June 2011
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Percentage of men who said they would start feeling old when music sounded too loud in bars : 22

June 2011
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Chances that a convict will be granted parole if his case comes up right after a judge has had breakfast : 7 in 10

June 2011
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Chance right before lunch : 1 in 4

June 2011
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Minimum number of female employees party to a sex-discrimination class-action lawsuit against Walmart : 1,500,000

June 2011
[Article]

Ryan went to Afghanistan
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[Poetry]

The emergency room at sunset
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[Photography]

[Untitled]
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[Photography]

MDRS #02
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[Article]

Trial of tears
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[Article]

Mustn’t grumble
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[illustration]

Hunger (Wuestefeld)
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[Article]

Appropriate behavior
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[Article]

Youth and reconciliation
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Pick of the litter
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[Feedback]

The Badgering State
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[illustration]

Psycho spaghetti western #6
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Homelawn security
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[Fiction]

What animal are you?
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[Collection]

“A Killer,” “The Four Kings,” “The Window,” and “The Fire”
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[Illustration]

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[Notice]

In memoriam
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[Letters]

Letters
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[Easy Chair]

Easy chair
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Harper’s Index
[Easy Chair]

Required reading
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Harper’s Index
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Harper’s index
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[Forum]

King James, Revised

History’s best seller turns 400

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[Article]

Life in the zone

What we're still learning from Chernobyl

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[Photography]

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[Collection]

Dust to dust
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[Article]

Into the Unforeseen

A romance of César Aira

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[Miscellany]

Being Blanche

Coming clean about Truly Tasteless Jokes

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[Fiction]

Medea
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[New Books]

New books
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[Reviews]

Salt march to the Dead Sea

Gandhi's Palestinian reincarnation

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[Reviews]

For love or money

Youth basketball comes of age

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[Puzzle]

Let me count the ways
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[Findings]

Findings
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[Findings]

The halving of dog-brain sizes had already begun five thousand years ago.

[Findings]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement surges reduce local employment by 1.3 percent among native-born American men with at most a high school diploma.

[Findings]

High-risk covert larceny makes food taste 39.3 percent better.

[Findings]

Left-wing men may use their political affiliation as a mating strategy.

[Findings]

Two babies in Roman York were found to have been interred in fine cloth of Tyrian purple.

[Findings]

Researchers using a kinetic-dot display inferred that infants as young as four months possess an enduring sense of beauty.

[Findings]

Americans’ ethical concern for posterity extends roughly twenty-eight generations into the future.

[Findings]

Young and middle-aged adults dislike elderly adults who feel younger than their age.

[Findings]

Dutch patients with late-stage non-small-cell lung cancer were evaluated using the Comprehensive Healthcare Providers’ Opinions, Preferences, and Attitudes Toward Deprescribing (CHOPPED) questionnaire, and Omani prostate-cancer patients receive advice from their uncles.

[Findings]

Negative time was experimentally confirmed.

[Findings]

Japan’s meteorological agency debuted the new category of kokushobi (“cruelly hot”) days.

[Findings]

Buried asunaro trees, along with the diaries of the courtier and poet Fujiwara no Teika, allowed for the dating of a solar proton event to between the winter of 1200 and the spring of 1201.

[Findings]

People have been losing an annual average of 338 daily spoken words for the past fifteen years.

[Findings]

Researchers discovered a mu-opioid receptor superagonist with weak addiction and withdrawal symptoms and high overall safety that also reduces heroin self-administration.

[Findings]

Tobacco plants were engineered to produce bufotenine, DMT, psilocin, psilocybin, and 5-MeO-DMT.

[Findings]

Accelerating human evolution coincident with the development of agriculture increased redheadedness and decreased male-pattern baldness.

[Findings]

Heat alone does not drive hornification.

[Findings]

Social conservatism among men, but not women, was negatively correlated with intellectual giftedness.

[Findings]

Large language models consistently prefer CVs written by other large language models, and specifically those written by themselves.

[Findings]

Excessive solitary masturbation decreases intimacy between couples in long-distance relationships.

[Findings]

The rise of the handshake did not precipitate the loss of hat-doffing.

[Findings]

Male Japanese pygmy octopuses avoid using their third right arm, which transfers sperm from their penis to a female, to reach into dark holes for shrimp.

[Findings]

The Flammability of Materials on the Moon experiment announced its intention to burn various materials on the moon.

[Findings]

Male players in European soccer leagues receive public recognition for on-field actions in direct proportion to the lightness of their skin.

[Findings]

An ancient mass grave in the Carpathian Basin was found to contain girls killed by blows to the head yet buried respectfully.

[Findings]

A twenty-nine-country survey found that Gen Z men are more than twice as likely as baby boomer men to say that a wife should obey her husband.

[Findings]

Couples in the United States with both partners working at least one day per week from home have 0.45 more children, accounting for 8.1 percent of births in 2024.

[Findings]

The vaginal pH of female olive baboons decreases, threatening sperm, after a female has mated with a genetically similar male.

[Findings]

Constipation among Chinese children is predicted by high income, early-life scolding about bowel habits, and a family history of constipation.

[Findings]

A bacterial strain found in kimchi may block the absorption of nanoplastics through the intestinal wall, according to researchers at the World Institute of Kimchi.

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