Month: January 2003
1 million cigarettes
1 million cigarettes and 144,000 chocolate bars are among the cargo of the 20,000-ton aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, which departed Saturday, 11 January, for war in Iraq.
Almost 1000 studen
Almost 1000 students in the Australian state of Queensland who attend via high frequency radio—the “School of the Air”—will drop the radios and instead use phone headsets, teleconferencing and broadband Internet.
Of the 53,799 automobile accidents i
Of the 53,799 automobile accidents in Poland during 2001, 12,117 were caused by “failures to adjust the speed of the car to traffic conditions.” In other words, speeding.
There are
There are 174 mosques in the Namangan province of Uzebekistan, down from more than 1200 in 1991.
“A Taste for Phish Shtick,” by David Segal, from
;I’m in the wrap-it-up category. You can marvel at Phish’s willingness to wing it, sense its regular-guy approachability and still wonder why anyone would want to sit through more than one concert. If this band is engaged in a musical conversation, as every fan will tell you, it sure seems like Anastasio is hogging the…
Up to 80 percent
Up to 80 percent of contraceptive funding in the Philippines was provided by the US government during the last 30 years. By 2004 such funding for intrauterine devices, the Pill and condoms will cease.
28.7 percent of office space in Silicon Valley was vacant in the fourth quarter of 2002.