Latest Harper's Index

Percentage of Indian college students who cite Gandhi and Hitler, respectively, as models for leaders of India : 23, 17

Percentage of Palestinians who said in May that Osama bin Laden would "do the right thing" regarding world affairs : 71

Percentage who said that George Bush would : 1

Amount of evidence, according to the New York Times in June, that Bush "did not believe" his own statements on Iraq : 0

Number of officials who ever suggested that Iraq had nuclear weapons, according to Donald Rumsfeld in June : 0

Number of times Democrat Howard Dean mentioned Iraq in announcing his candidacy for president this year : 0

Year in which Dick Cheney said that his policy as CEO of Halliburton was that "we wouldn't do anything in Iraq" : 2000

Price of the oil-field supplies sold to Iraq by two Halliburton subsidiaries during Cheney's tenure : $73,000,000

Amount Pat Robertson has invested in Liberian gold mining : $8,000,000

Number of times he cited the country's leaders as wronged Christians on his TV show while President Bush was in Africa : 3

Ratio of the number of Ethiopians at risk from famine today to those who died in 1984's record famine : 13:1

Amount Thailand has promised to pay survivors of anyone who dies of SARS contracted there : $100,000

Rank of measles among diseases that kill the most children worldwide each year and can be prevented by vaccine : 1

Cost of vaccinating the 745,000 children who died from the disease in 2001 : $558,750

Estimated number of soccer balls the U.S. government sent Iraq this summer to help "bring life back to normal" : 60,000

Percentage of Basra's liquor stores that have closed since March : 100

Amount New Zealand's Fire Service spent this year on a TV campaign against cooking while drunk : $201,300

Estimated acres of forest Henry David Thoreau burned down in 1844 trying to cook fish he had caught for dinner : 300

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