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by Catherine Bailey

posted Nov 30, 2006

Percentage by which caloric intake from milk decreased in the United States from 1977 to 2001: 38

Age range in which the largest decrease occurred: 2-18

Percentage by which caloric intake from soft drinks increased in the United States in this time: 135 [1]

Percentage of 523 school districts surveyed that have a contract with a soft drink company: 50

Percentage of these school districts that receive money from the soft drink sales made in their schools: 80 [2]

Percentage of 16,000 American elementary schools surveyed that have eliminated recess or may do so: 40 [3]

Approximate percentage by which clinical obesity in children ages 6-19 has increased in the past thirty years: 200 [4]

Rank of the word “mother” in a survey of 42,000 English-speakers' favorite words: 1 [5]

Number of times Massachusetts father Dick Hoyt has enabled his handicapped son to compete in triathlons by pushing his wheelchair through the entire race: 206 [6]

Average price of sneakers endorsed by an NBA player: $150

Price of new sneakers conceived of and endorsed by NBA player Stephon Marbury: $14.95

Number of dollars Marbury will receive for endorsing these sneakers: 0 [7]

Percentage of Americans who agree with the statement, “the free enterprise system and free market economy is the best system on which to base the future of the world”: 71

Percentage of the French who agree with this statement: 36

Percentage of the Chinese who agree with this statement: 74 [8]

Number of Earth-sized planets needed if global resource consumption matched that of the United States: 3 [9]

Year in which China stopped receiving food aid from the U.N. World Food Programme: 2005

Year in which China emerged as the world's third largest food aid donor: 2005 [10]

Percentage of Americans who agree that arts are vital to providing children a well-rounded education: 93

Percentage of Americans who agree that arts education improves children's attitudes toward school: 86 [11]

Number of U.S. states that implemented budget cuts to arts funding in 2003: 42[12]

Miles of roadside land reserved for a tree-planting campaign in the Philippines in August, 2006: 2,137

Number of minutes volunteers were given to plant as many saplings as they could: 30

Estimated number of volunteers who participated in the campaign: 1,000,000

Estimated number of trees that were planted: 500,000 [13]

Place Charlie Chaplin won in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest, which he entered under a false name: 3 [14]

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Williamson, David, “U.S. Soft Drink Consumption Grew
135% Since 1977, Boosting Obesity,” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill News Services, Sept. 16, 2006, http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sept04/popkin091604.html.
2 Murray, Robert, Frankowski, Barbara, and Taras, Hoard, "Are Soft Drinks a Scapegoat for Childhood Obesity?" The Journal of Pediatrics, Volume 146, Number 5, May 2005, as cited in: “Soft Drinks Consumption may Increase the Risk of Childhood Obesity,” Medical News Today, May 12, 2005, http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=24216.
American Association for the Child's Right to Play, as cited in: Chmelynski, Carol, “Cutting Play Time could be Counterproductive, Experts Warn,” National School Boards Association, June 26, 2006, https://www.nsba.org/site/doc_sbn.asp?TRACKID=&VID=58&CID=1858&DID=38682.
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Ruppert, Sandra S., “Critical Evidence: How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement,” National Assembly of States Arts Agencies, 2006. http://www.nasaa-arts.org/publications/critical-evidence.shtml

Cederholm, Rebecca, “Update on State Arts Funding,” College Art Association, Nov. 2003. www.collegeart.org/advocacy/2003/11/16/update-on-state-arts-funding.
“Philippines Hopes to Set World Record by Planting 500,000 Trees to Improve Air Quality,” ABC News, August 25, 2006.
Milton, Joyce, “Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin,” Harper Collins, 1996, as cited in: Mikkelson, Barbara and David, “Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest,” Urban Legends Reference Pages, July 19, 1998, http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/chaplin2.htm.