Topic: Stat of the Day

Stat of the Day

A Bucket of KFC Chicken Smuggled into Gaza City Costs $27

AP

The company's selection of chicken and hearty sides is so popular that Palestinians living on the Gaza Strip, where imported goods and travel remain restricted, are willing to pay a team of smugglers to run KFC orders through underground tunnels, usually waiting four or more hours to see their orders fulfilled.

By Dino Grandoni

Sep 9, 2011

Stat of the Day

Obama Administration Nears Its Millionth Deportation

He's topped Bush's last 28 months in office by about 200,000

Comments | 1,769 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Sep 8, 2011

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Education Five Times More Important Than Gender for Income

Does that help explain why women are earning more degrees than men?

Comments | 1,049 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Sep 6, 2011

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Half of Wealthy Americans Agree with Buffett, Would Pay Higher Taxes

48 percent of those with $3 million or more in assets are open to giving Uncle Sam more

Comments | 6,552 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Sep 2, 2011

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At Least 16,000 Guns Have Gone Missing from Factories Since 2009

That's about 18 guns lost daily, on average

Comments | 5,462 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Aug 31, 2011

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Fatal Hospital Infections 17 Times More Likely in U.S. Than in Europe

The U.S. ranks last among developed nations in treating preventable diseases

Comments | 3,204 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Aug 30, 2011

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Three-Generation Households Are Making a Comeback

There are now about 5.1 million multigenerational homes in the U.S.

Comments | 1,639 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Aug 29, 2011

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Americans Buy 11 Billion Paper Clips a Year

That's 35 paper clips per American

Comments | 1,552 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Aug 26, 2011

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Red States Lead the Nation in Divorce

Fourteen of the 20 states with the highest divorce rates are red

Comments | 4,137 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Aug 24, 2011

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Prediction: There Will Soon Be One Worker Robot for Every 5,000 Humans

One projection says that the nation of robo-workers will be 1.2 million strong in two years

Comments | 690 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Aug 22, 2011

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One in Four New Marriages in New York City Is Gay

So far 1,400 gay couples have wed in the Big Apple

Comments | 1,120 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Aug 18, 2011

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$78 Million in Cash Found and Turned In After Japanese Quake

Officials are busting open safes to figure out which loot's whose

Comments | 9,382 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Aug 17, 2011

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Americans Dislike Teachers' Unions, But Dislike State Governors More

47% of respondents say teachers' unions hurt school quality

Comments | 1,377 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Aug 16, 2011

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Frequent Travelers Are Almost Twice As Likely to Be Obese

Stressed and sleep-deprived business travelers tend to pack on the pounds

Comments | 4,384 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Aug 12, 2011

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Majority of Tech Execs Say We're in Another Bubble

Tech company leaders are more worried than executives in other industries

Comments | 809 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Aug 10, 2011

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Twice as Many Unmarried Adults Cohabiting, Compared to Mid-1990s

Cohabitation is better economically for the college-educated

Comments | 1,552 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Aug 9, 2011

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Americans Have No Idea Who Today's Scientists Are

Only 4 percent could name a living scientist

Comments | 2,405 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Aug 5, 2011

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America Has More Scorn for Smokers Than Fat People

A quarter of people say they have less respect for someone who smokes

Comments | 862 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Aug 4, 2011

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A Quarter of Toddlers Have Used a Smartphone

Mom and dad are learning to use their iPhones as babysitters

Comments | 607 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Aug 3, 2011

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More Journalists Killed in Mexico Than Afghanistan

By one count, at least 42 journalists have been murdered there in the past half decade

Comments | 1,365 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Aug 2, 2011

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37 Percent of Newspaper Subscribers Buy Paper Out of Habit

But subscribers are still buying papers mainly for their local coverage

Comments | 190 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Jul 29, 2011

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Investors Trust Budweiser More Than Spain or Greece

Interest rates for some corporations lower than those of the two European nations

Comments | 1,020 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Jul 27, 2011

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A Bottle and Can Collector Can Make $400 a Week

That's about as much as what fast-food workers make

Comments | 1,844 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Jul 26, 2011

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Ars Technica Makes $15,000 Selling Free Article as E-Book

The tech website's review of OS X Lion makes its way onto Kindle

Comments | 2,387 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Jul 25, 2011

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The Guardians of the WSJ's Ethics Get Paid $100,000 Each

In The Atlantic Wire's guestimation, that's about $445 per word

Comments | 1,117 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Jul 22, 2011

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NYU Professor Found That One-Fifth of His Class Plagiarized

He says students gave him poor evaluations, and his pay suffered as a result

Comments | 3,280 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Jul 21, 2011

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Only 52% of Americans Approve of God's Job Performance

In good news for the Almighty that's still higher than Obama and Boehner

Comments | 13,240 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Jul 20, 2011

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College Students Are Doing a Lot of Sexting

67 percent of college students report they have sent sexually explicit texts

Comments | 475 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Jul 19, 2011

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Many Federal Employees More Likely to Die Than Be Fired

USA Today argues that job security is better with Uncle Sam than private sector

Comments | 995 Views

By Ujala Sehgal

Jul 16, 2011

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Black Men Live Longer Inside Prison Than Out

The bleak statistic raises questions on the state of public health care

Comments | 9,815 Views

By Dino Grandoni

Jul 14, 2011

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Nobody Wants a $1 Billion Pile of Dollar Coins

The unwanted coins are just accumulating in federal vaults

Comments | 1,569 Views

By Caitlin Dickson

Apr 1, 2011

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The U.S. Has Dropped 76% of the Bombs in Libya

The coalition may be multinational, but most of the military force is American

Comments | 2,832 Views

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