Percentage of U.S. children
who save their allowance money
, according to a survey of American
parents : 1
Estimated percentage of North American
pit-viper
litters that are "virgin
births" : 5
Average salary
subjects in a September study offered a fictional woman
applying for a U.S.
university
laboratory position
: $26,408
Average salary they offered a fictional man
with identical credentials : $30,328
Amount Massachusetts
has been ordered to pay
for the sex-reassignment
surgery
of an inmate serving life in prison
: $23,000
Minimum square footage of San Francisco
apartments
allowed under new regulations : 220
Number of San Quentin
prisoners
who could reside in one such apartment, based on their average cell size : 10
Minimum funds
smuggled
out of China
in the past two decades by officials fleeing the country : $120,000,000
Percentage change in the theft
of Apple
products in New York City
since January : +40
Chance that a crime
committed in New York City in 2012 was one of these thefts : 1 in 7
Projected percentage increase in the 2012 U.S.
GDP attributable to sales
of the iPhone 5
: 0.33
Projected year by which more than half of Americans
will be obese
: 2030
Average number of times each week U.S.
surgeons
operate on the wrong
patient or body part : 40
Portion of the National
Institutes of Health
's research-chimp
population going into retirement in the next year : 1/5
Percentage increase since 2000 in the compensation
of full professors
at the fifty wealthiest private U.S.
universities
: 14
In the compensation of the presidents
of those universities : 75
Percentage increase since 2008 in the portion of Americans
who call themselves "lower-class
" : 28
In the portion earning
more than $100,000 annually who do : 20
Ratio of U.S.
tax breaks to tax
revenue in 2011 : 1:1
Number of trees
that will be cleared so the space shuttle Endeavor can be towed to the California
Science
Museum : 400
Percentage change in the past five years in the share of new U.S.
cars
sold to people between ages 18 and 34 : –42
Portion of New York City
taxis
driven by women
: 1/100
. JPMorgan Chase (N.Y.C.). Warren Booth, University of Tulsa (Oklahoma)
,. Jo Handelsman, Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)
. Marci L. Bowers (Trinidad, Colo.)
. Panoramic Interests (Berkeley, Calif.) . California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (San Quentin)
. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing)
,. New York City Police Department
. Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics (Ithaca, N.Y.)
. Trust for America's Health (Washington)
. Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality (Baltimore)
. National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Md.)
. Bullhorn (Cambridge, Mass.)
,. Pew Research Center (Washington)
. Fraternal Order of Police (Washington). JCDecaux (Paris)
. Polk (Southfield, Mich.)