14850 Online
January/February 1995
Volume 4, Number 1
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