05/31/2013
By the Numbers
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Carson
YES! Magazine (Summer 2013) reported these factoids:
- Total hours U.S. adults spent watching TV in 2008: 200 billion
- Number of the top 250 movies that include at least two named female characters who to talk to each other about something other than men: 66
- Points scored for "quixotry," the highest scoring word in Scrabble history: 365
- Total firearm homicides in U.S. in 2010: 11,078
- Total firearm suicides in U.S in 2010: 19,392
- Years it took for human population to grow from 1 billion to 2 billion: 123
- Years it took to grow from 6 billion to 7 billion: 12
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