Percentage of freshmen at four-year colleges
who declare "Roman Catholic
" as their religious affiliation : 26
Who declare "None
" : 25
Number of subjects that Iranian
universities
have barred
undergraduate women
from studying : 77
Average number of times each week U.S.
surgeons
operate on the wrong
patient or body part : 40
Rank of preventable medical
errors
among the leading causes of death
in the United States : 3
Percentage of recruiters or hiring
managers who find applicants with nonfelony criminal
records "very difficult
" to place : 31
,. Higher Education Research Institute (Los Angeles)
. Human Rights Watch (N.Y.C.)
. Trust for America's Health (Washington)
. Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare (Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.)
. National Literacy Trust (London)