From America
From
American psychos to car-crash survivors in 21 steps
Number
of points in a new 'Business scan' questionnaire developed by Pr Robert Hare and
Dr Paul Babiak, North American experts in psychotic disorders, to identify
psychopaths in the workplace 107
%
of the general population in north America that Pr Hare estimates are
psychopaths - Hare believes a psychopath's ability to manipulate others, coupled
with a veneer of charm and high energy, can make them perfectly qualified for
top posts in the military, politics or multinational companies 1
%
of top executives who misrepresent their education 15
Number
of euros unaccountably missing from giant Italian dairy business Parmalat 10bn
Amount
the republican administration in America is planning to spend on a campaign to
promote heterosexual marriage $1.5
m
%
of Americans who are opposed to gay marriage 61
Number
of the 7,300 Episcopal church parishes in America that are threatening to break
away in a realignment of 'faith and values' - key to the split is the recent
consecration of gay bishop Gene Robinson 260
Number
of people globally in the Anglican communion 70m
Number
of countries who have member of the Anglican Communion 164
Number
of countries in the Commonwealth53
Number
of wildlife surveyors, wearing fibreglass vest and steel helmets, who are carrying
out a census of Bengal tigers in the Sunderban delta on the India/Bangladesh
border 250
Number
of tigers counted in the last census, in 2002, on the India side 271
Number
of people killed by tiger every year on the Indian side of the Sunderbans -
mostly fisherman, woodcutters or honey collectors50
Number
of years since the first speed cameras were introduced 12
Cost
of a fixed speed camera £32,000
Number
of £60 and three penalty-point fines generated by the 5,000 speed cameras in
use in 2003 2m
Amount
of money raised for the treasury each year by speed cameras £17m
Number
of articles in the national press over the past year about speed cameras 1,305
%
of pedestrian hit by a vehicle moving at 20mph that survive the impact 95
%
of pedestrian hit by a vehicle moving at 30mph that survive the impact50
%
of pedestrian hit by a vehicle moving at 40mph that survive the impact 5
Compiled
by Tom Templeton
1-2
BBC 3 The Guardian 4 BBC 5,6 New York Times 7-9 The Guardian 10 The
commonwealth 11-13 Associated Press 14-17 The Guardian 18-21 Observer
research
Published in the
Observer Magazine (08-02-2004)
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