Air Pollution
Portion of Americans who live in areas harmful levels of air pollution: 1/2 Number of the top five most polluted cities in the country that are in California: 5
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Armed Robberies
Percent increase in armed robberies at pharmacies since 2006: 81
Read moreTargeted By Hackers
Percentage of the world’s 25 largest news organizations that have been targeted by state-backed hackers: 84
Read moreNo Electricity
About 25 percent of the world’s population, or 1.6 billion people, do not have electricity in their homes.
Read moreGood week for . . .
Smarty pants, after Google developers announced that they were teaming up with Levi’s to make jeans with conductive fibers that could be used as touch screens, allowing users to answer the phone or send a text just by swiping their thighs.
Read moreRich America
The 400 richest Americans have as much wealth as all 41 million African Americans.
Read moreAlternative Healing
Nearly 50% of American adults now use some form of alternative medicine, spending an estimated $27 billion a year on herbal and other supplements and on such treatments as acupuncture, chiropractic, and energy healing.
Read moreWitch Hunt
Minimum number of murders committed in India since 2000 whose motive was witch hunting: 2,257
Read moreCan’t Afford To Post Bail
Some 480,000 suspects are currently locked up in American jails awaiting trial. About 75 percent of them are low-level offenders accused of nonviolent infractions, and are in jail simply because they can’t afford to post bail.
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. . . a reptile experience, after a Michigan firefighter who’d handled snakes as a teen ran into a burning home and carefully rescued a 6-foot-long python. None of the other firefighters “wanted anything to do with it.”
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