{"id":70,"date":"2004-06-04T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2004-06-04T18:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/?p=70"},"modified":"2005-03-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T17:00:00","slug":"keep-up-on-the-harpers-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2004\/06\/keep-up-on-the-harpers-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Up on the Harper’s Index"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a selection from the most current Harper’s Index<\/a>, my favorite shapshot of stats. I got hooked on it years ago and I rarely miss it. It’s put out by Harper’s Magazine<\/a>, an American journal of literature, politics, culture, and the arts (since 1850). In the online version, there are links to sources. <\/p>\n

Number of Holsteins disqualified from the Ohio State Fair last August because they were wearing a hair piece : 2
[Ohio Department of Agriculture (Reynoldsburg) ] <\/p>\n

Number of suspensions a Dallas-area high school handed out last fall for dress-code violations : 1,116
[Duncanville Independent School District (Tex.) ] <\/p>\n

Acreage of a Christian nudist colony under development in Florida : 240
[Continuing Care, Inc. (Venice, Fla.) ] <\/p>\n

Minimum number of Italian men accused of paying for a "sexual anxieties" diagnosis to avoid military service last winter : 150
[Sophie Arie, Guardian (London) ] <\/p>\n

Percentage of the 958 same-sex unions granted to Vermont residents since July 2000 that have since been dissolved : 3
[Vermont Department of Health (Burlington) ] <\/p>\n

Percentage of U.S. heterosexual marriages that are dissolved within five years : 20
[National Center for Health Statistics (Hyattsville, Md.) ] <\/p>\n

Percentage of senior management positions in medium-size Russian companies that are held by women : 42
[Grant Thornton International (London) ] <\/p>\n

Minimum number of Tennesseans who have ordered new license plates bearing the Confederate flag : 3,000
[Tennessee Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans (Brentwood) ] <\/p>\n

Minimum revenue the Sons of Confederate Veterans stands to collect through such sales : $20,000
[Tennessee Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans (Brentwood) ] <\/p>\n

Amount the federal Individual Indian Trust cannot account for, per Native American it serves : $26,000
[Native American Rights Fund (Boulder, Colo.) ] <\/p>\n

Total overruns at Boston’s "Big Dig" attributed to mistakes and mismanagement by the Bechtel Corporation : $1,100,000,000
[Boston Globe ] <\/p>\n

Years in prison to which two ex-Pentagon officials were sentenced last year for taking bribes of money and prostitutes : 24
[U.S. Department of Justice (Alexandria, Va.) ] <\/p>\n

Number of blank votes recorded by touchscreen machines in a January election for Florida’s House of Representatives : 137
[Florida Department of State (Tallahassee) ] <\/p>\n

Votes by which the race was won : 12
[Florida Department of State (Tallahassee) ] <\/p>\n

Minimum number of misleading statements on Iraq made by the Bush Administration’s top officials since March 2002 : 237
[Committee on Government Reform (Washington, D.C.) ] <\/p>\n

Percentage of these that contradicted, made selective use of, or mischaracterized existing government intelligence : 100
[Committee on Government Reform (Washington, D.C.) ] <\/p>\n

Days before last year’s invasion of Iraq that Osama bin Laden called Saddam Hussein a "socialist infidel" : 36
[Al Jazeera (Doha, Qatar)\/BBC Monitoring Service (Caversham Park, U.K.) ] <\/p>\n

The Online Harper’s has a searchable index by category, including by person. I like the George W page<\/a>. <\/p>\n

They also have a weekly review <\/a>that rivals my other favorite read, News of the Weird<\/a>. An example:<\/p>\n

"Investigators revealed that a retired banker living in Switzerland spent 10 years helping Saddam Hussein hide millions of dollars via a Bahamas bank account under the name of Satan<\/a>." <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Total overruns at Boston’s “Big Dig” attributed to mistakes and mismanagement by the Bechtel Corporation : $1,100,000,000 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-culture","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}