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Gender

"Despite three decades of affirmative action, 'glass ceilings' still block women and minority groups from the top management ranks of American industry. White men, while constituting about 43% of the work force, hold about 95% of 100 senior management positions, defined as vice president and above."©

-New York Times
March 16, 1995

Age

"The centenarian population grew by 160% in the US during the 1980's. Demographers predict that 20 to 40 million people will be aged 85 or older in the year 2040, and 500,000 to 4 million will be centenarians 100 or over) in 2050."

-Scientific American
January, 1995

Healthcare

"In the United States, the average hospital stay is five days. In Russia, which has far fewer resources for health care, it is 23 days. The number of hospital beds per 1,000 people, considered one of the truest measures of cost efficiency, is twice as high in Russia as in America. And while there is one doctor for every 450 Americans, there is one for every 250 Russians."©

Transportation

"Dr. Arnold Barnett, a professor of operations research and statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said that airline crashes are so rare that, 'roughly speaking, if you were to board a jet flight at random every day, it would take 26,000 years on average before you succumb to a major crash.'"©

-New York Times
September 11, 1994

Population

"The 1990 census showed that of a total population of 1.2 billion in China, about 105 million Chinese over the age of 15 are single. And of those, there are nearly three men for every two women. While the vast majority of Chinese adults marry by the time they turn 30, eight million people in their 30s were still single in 1990. And in that age group, the men outnumbered the women by nearly 10 to 1."©

-New York Times
August 16, 1994

Animals

"Since 1976, 21 people have been stomped, crushed, or gored to death by elephants in the United States. Eight of those fatalities occured during the past five years. An average year will see at least one of the 600 people who work with elephants in the United States killed by one or more of the 600 elephants in captivity. Statistically, that makes elephant handling the most dangerous profession in the nation-three times more hazardous than coal mining."

-Los Angeles Times
October 11, 1994

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