Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
That’s the percentage of those Americans who have heard of global warming who say they personally worry about the issue a great deal (19%) or a fair amount (34%). Fewer Americans worry about global warming than do people in any of the other major industrialized nations included in the 2006 Pew Global Attitudes Survey.
The number of individual entries by Mexicans and Canadians who have border crossing cards and were authorized for temporary stays in the U.S. in 2004.
That’s the number of Americans surveyed by The Pew Global Attitudes project in May 2003 who said they regarded U.S. policies in the Middle East as fair. In the poll, which covered 21 countries, pluralities or majorities in every other country — including Israel — believed that the United States favors Israel over the Palestinians too much. Nearly half (47%) of Israelis said that U.S. policy favors Israel too much.
That’s the number of states that have allocated funds to support embryonic stem cell research. President Bush’s veto of a measure to expand federal funding of such research leaves a handful of states on the contentious cutting edge of government efforts to boost the fledgling science.
That’s the share of the British public that now says it is very concerned about the rise of Islamic extremism in Great Britain, a substantial increase over the 34% who said so a year ago before the July 2005 London subway bombings. An additional 35% say they are somewhat concerned.
That’s the percent of the U.S. public that sympathizes with Israel in the ongoing dispute between Israel and the Palestinians.
That’s the proportion of the French public who — in the context of the riots that swept France this year — express sympathy toward the youths from immigrant and working class suburbs who felt frustrated by their place in French society.
That’s the number of former governors who are campaigning to regain their once-held posts this year.
That’s the percentage of American adults owning mobile phones who say they have used their hand-held device in an emergency and gained valuable help. Mobile women (77%) were more likely than mobile men (71%) to report this experience.
That’s the age that President George W. Bush turns on his birthday today, July 6. The president’s year of birth, 1946, places him at the leading edge of the enormous baby boom generation, which collectively accounts for about 27% of all Americans.
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