Percentage of Americans who say they would not report to the IRS $2,000 in cash they earned from sideline work: 32
Instances of sex per hour on daytime TV dramas: NBC, 4.6; ABC, 7.2; CBS, 7.7
Number of nonchurched Americans who listen to Christian radio: 1 in 6
Year the Soviet Union legalized abortions: 1928
Average number of abortions per woman in nations of the former USSR: 2.5-4
In the West: 0.63
Number of Muslims in the U.S.: 3-4 million
Years until Muslims may outnumber Presbyterians in the U.S.: 5
Amount of money the U.S. State Department set aside to purchase condoms for troops deployed in Haiti: $200,000
Percentage of medical office visits made for stress-related symptoms: 60-90
Percentage of 10-year-old males in the housing projects of one large U.S. city who had had sex: 28
Of 13-year-old males: 76
Of 15-year-old males: 100
Percentage of parents who ask their sixth graders about their homework: 74
Who ask their twelfth graders: 47
Percentage of Americans who believe that killing a doctor who performs abortions is a “justifiable act”: 3
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SOURCES–Cheat on taxes: “Money,” 8/94. TV sex: “U.S. News & World Report,” 10/10/94. Radio: WMBI-FM, Chicago, 11/1/94. Abortions: World Health, 5-6/94. Muslims: “American Demographics,” 1/94. Condoms: “The Pastor’s Weekly Briefing” (Focus on the Family), 9/29/94. Stress: “Harvard Business Review,” 11-12/94. Housing project sex: “Family Planning Options,” 9-10/94, citing “American Journal of Public Health,’ 84, 1994. Investigators interviewed 140 males ages 9-15. Homework: “Source” (Search Institute), 10/94. Killing abortion doctors: Time-CNN poll (NYC)/Yankelovich Partners (Claremont, CA), as cited in “Harper’s,” 11/94.
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