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Here are excerpts from the January edition of the Harper’s Index:
- Number of statues in New York’s Central Park that depict women: 19
- Percentage of those statues that depict fictional women: 100
- Percentage change since 2003 in the number of bank heists in the United States: –46
- In complaints of internet fraud: +131
- Portion of new U.S. parents who have taken a lower-paying job because it offered better family benefits: ½
- Percentage of donated organs in New England that came from victims of drug overdoses in 2010: 4
- Today: 27
- Chance that an American adult is searchable in facial-recognition databases used by U.S. law-enforcement agencies: 1 in 2
- Estimated number of gay and bisexual men whom the United Kingdom plans to posthumously pardon for sexual crimes: 50,000
- Estimated number of votes by which Donald Trump won the state of Wisconsin: 27,000
- Of registered Wisconsin voters who lacked voter identification: 360,000
[Note: Since Harper’s went to press, the gap between Clinton and Trump in Wisconsin has narrowed to slightly more than 22,000 votes. MB]
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At Daily Kos on this date in Another missile defense test fails:
Another failed test.
An attempt to launch an interceptor missile as part of the U.S. missile defence shield failed early Wednesday in the first test of the system in nearly two years.
The Missile Defense Agency said the ground-based interceptor automatically shutdown "due to an unknown anomaly" shortly before it was to be launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean [...]
The missile defense shield was meant to be in operation by the end of 2004.
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