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SharePercentage of American LGBT students who report being verbally harassed: 86.2
Percentage of American students who periodically skip school: 5.5
Percentage of LGBT students who skip school due to feeling unsafe: 32.7
Grade point average of LGBT students frequently harassed: 2.4
Grade point average of LGBT students who know at least six supportive educators: 2.9 [1]
Percentage of land protected worldwide as parks: 12.1
Percentage of ocean designated as marine protected areas: 0.7 [2]
Percentage of increase of species in marine protected areas: 21 [3]
Percentage of life-insurance agencies rated “excellent” by raters paid by the insurance company: 47–81
Percentage rated “excellent” when the rater was not paid by the insurance company: 11 [4]
Number of Florida deaths in 2007 related to abuse of prescription drugs: 2,382
Number of Florida deaths in 2007 related to all methamphetamines: 989
Number of Florida deaths in 2007 related to the abuse of marijuana: 0 [5]
Number of American Indians who fought in WWI (1914 to 1918) as volunteers: 6,000
Year American Indians were granted U.S. citizenship: 1924
Number of American Indians who served in the Vietnam War (which ended in 1975): 41,500 [6]
Year American Indians were granted religious freedom: 1978 [7]
Percentage of Americans who say they have no religious affiliation: 30–40 [8]
Percentage of Americans who described themselves as Christian in 1990: 86
Percentage in 2008: 76 [9]
Amount a private company paid to take over Chicago’s municipal parking: $1.157 billion
Number of years the company controls parking rates and collects the revenue: 75
Income the municipal parking system will generate during those 75 years: $2.13 billion [10]
Age of oldest human being on record, Jeanne Calment (1875-1997): 122 [11]
Age of longest-lived mollusk on record, a quahog clam: 400+ [12]
Approximate age of Methuselah Pine, the world’s oldest-known living tree: 4,600+ [13]
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Kosciw, J. G., Diaz, E. M., and Greytak, E. A. (2008). 2007 National School Climate Survey: The experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth in our nation’s schools. New York: GLSEN.
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M.D. Spalding et al. (2008) Toward representative protection of the world’s coasts and oceans; progressive gaps and opportunities. Conservation Letters, Vol. 1, Number 5.
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Lubchenco, Jane., et al. The Science of Marine Reserves. The Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans, 2007.
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Consumer Reports, Money Adviser, “Is Your Life Insurance Safe?” May 2009
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Damien Cave, Legal Drugs Kill Far More Than Illegal, Florida Says, June 14, 2008, The New York Times.
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American Indian Religious Freedom Act Report, P.L 95-341, August 1979.
http://www.archive.org/stream/americanindianre01unit/americanindianre01unit_djvu.txt
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Dan Harris, “Young Americans losing their religion,” ABC News, May 6, 2009
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Dan Harris, “America is Becoming Less Christian, Less Religious,” ABC News, March 9, 2009, http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=7041036&page=1
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Chicago Inspector’s General Office. An Analysis of the Lease of the City’s Parking Meters. June 2, 2009
http://www.chicagoinspectorgeneral.org/pdf/IGO-CMPS-20090602.pdf
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Whitney, Craig., Jeanne Calment, World’s Elder, Dies at 122. The New York Times, August 5, 1997
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Bangor University. 400 year-old clam found. October 28, 2007
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Gwen Kinkead. At age 4,600-plus, Methuselah pine tree begets new offspring, The New York Times. June 17, 2003
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