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19 result
    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


    Estimated percentage of
    North American
    pit-viper
    litters that are "
    virgin
     births" : 5



    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


    Percentage of U.S.
    children
     who save their allowance
    money
    , according to a survey of
    American
     parents : 1


    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


,

. Jo Handelsman, Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)

. Warren Booth, University of Tulsa (Oklahoma)

. 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

. JPMorgan Chase (N.Y.C.)

. 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.)