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January/February 1995

Volume 4, Number 1

• The cover story on Star Trek: Voyager offers "all the dirt on the newest offering in the Star Trek line, and why you won't be able to see it in Ithaca." Other features include:
• The Xer/Boomer Debate, Part II
• Green Tank Top, Polarfleece Jacket...
• The Gist of MYST
• Jamie Notarthomas Learns to Fly
• Humor: Mind the Gap
• Snippets: To Life, To Life, L'Chayim -- Drop Dead
• Conspiracy Theorist: Half Satire/Whole Conspiracy

Ithaca's Index

• Percentage of Americans who say they're losing faith in doctors: 70
• Percentage of Americans who think doctors are far too interested in making money: 69
• Average income (1993) of a doctor: 180,000
• Ratio of average doctor's income with the average wage earner: 6:1
• Number of members of the 103rd Congress with investments in the health care industry: 134
• Total amount AMA spent to defeat Harry Truman's national health insurance plan between 1949 to 1952, in current dollars: $30.2 million
• Total amount AMA gave Congressional candidates from 1983 through July 1994: $13,782,617
• Number of children and teenage deaths each year that could be prevented by better health care and other steps to overcome economic inequities: 23,000
• Inches of snow in Ithaca during last three months of 1993: 30
• Inches of snow in Ithaca during last three months of 1994: 3
• Temperature in Ithaca the afternoon of Winter Solstice, the first day of winter: 50o
• Rank of this December among warmest Decembers in Ithaca: 11
• Rank of snowfall this December among lowest December snowfalls: 3
• Amount Department of Energy offered Native America tribal councils for first study on possibility of hosting a nuclear waste site: $100,000
• Annual amount U.S. spends on nuclear weapons related programs: $20 billion
• Percentage of above amount spent towards preparations for nuclear war: 65
• Percentage spent on programs addressing environmental legacy of nuclear weapons production cycle: 30
• The top nuclear weapons contractor, Lockheed Corporation, annual amount for these contracts: $4 billion
• Number of countries that prohibit nuclear weapons by national law, policy or constitution: 23
• Amount the U.S. spends to prove that nuclear waste sites will be safe for the mandated 10,000 years: $3.8 billion
• Percent of nation's stores that are franchises: 10
• Number of states in America with no Wal-Mart: 1
• Annual sales of Wal-Mart: $55 billion
• Time a Nevada man spent in jail for jay walking: 24 days
• Percentage of Fortune 500 companies who have at least one woman on their board of directors: 52
• Percentage of directorships held by women: 6.9
• Revenue NFL expects from Super Bowl merchandising and product licensing: $25 million
• Greatest weight ever lifted by a human: 6,270 pounds
• Ratio of ozone hole over Antarctica to size of the U.S.: 3:1
• Number of people born each day across the world: 200,000
• Ratio of dogs and cats to children in America: 2:1
• Chance that an American high school senior cannot locate Latin America on a map: 1 in 3
• Median age of U.S. voters: 45
• Percentage of Americans who expect to go to Heaven when they die: 66

Index Sources

• 1-7: Nation 1/9/95
• 8-9: Ithaca Journal, 12/21/94
• 10: Ithaca Journal 12/28/94
• 11: Commons clock
• 12-13: Ithaca Journal, 1/5/95
• 14-19: The New Abolitionist, Fall 1994
• 20-23: Utne Reader, Jan/Feb 1995
• 24-26: Ithaca Journal, 12/28/94
• 27: Ithaca Journal, 1/5/95
• 28-30: Warren Standard, Fall 1994
• 31-34: Subjective Reasoning, 1992