Saturday, July 5, 2008

Reading Harpers' Index

Minimum number of U.S. cities that have shortened the yellow light on traffic signals to under the legal limt: 6
Average percentage by which a bar-smoking ban in a U.S. county increases the rate of drunk-driving fatalities: 13
Chance that a result on an internet search relating to suicide will be an anti-suicide website: 1 in 8
Chance it will be a site offering pro-suicide advice or suggesting methods: 1 in 5
Radius in feet within which a bee can smell a flower in unpolluted air: 3,281
Radius in air downwind from a city: 650
Hours each day that house cats must engage in social "activities," according to new Swedish regulations: 2
Length, in inches, of a "living coat" made of mouse stem-cells that was exhibited in March at the Museum of Modern Art: 1.5
Months into the exhibition that a feeding malfunction forced the artists to euthanize the work: 1

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