10% - Percentage of the weight
of all the world's animals that is made up of ants. (Maxim. March
2002)
66% - Percentage of people who have
had a workplace "affair." (Physician's MONEY DIGEST
from Business Week, 2000)
$40,582 - Average salary for a U.S. public school teacher.
(NEA,2000)
50% - Percentage of first marriages
that end in divorce. (Physician's MONEY DIGEST from Smart Money,2000)
124 - Number of days that
an average American must work per year to pay government taxes.
( Physician's MONEY DIGEST from Investor's Business Daily, 2000)
In the U.S., there is
an estimated 175 million "junked, dead, or out-of-use"
computer sets tucked in warehouses and residential basements and
attics containing about 650 million pounds of lead, 987,000 pounds
of cadmium, 231,000 pounds of mercury and more than 2 billion
pounds of plastics. Last year, of the 24 million computers retired
in the U.S., only 3.3 million were recycled. Some eventually make
it to landfills. There, these components release toxic substances
and mix with liquids that in some cases leach into soils and threaten
ground water. It is estimated that 30 to 40 percent
of lead in municipal landfills comes from computers and other
electronic equipment. (MSNBC Environment Coverage. 14 Aug
2000)
