FAT, DUMB, and UGLY by PETER STRUPP

Author:PETER STRUPP
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Published: 2004-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Percentage of American fourth graders who are unaware of the Pilgrims’ and Puritans’ reason for voyaging to North America: 59

Percentage of American fourth graders who cannot name one of the original 13 colonies: 68

Percentage of American eighth graders who cannot recount any of the issues debated at the Constitutional Convention: 90

Percentage of Americans today who do not know whether the Soviet Union was an ally or enemy of the United States in World War II: 51

The most admired American women of 2002:

Hillary Clinton (7 percent)

Laura Bush (6 percent)

Oprah Winfrey (6 percent)

Barbara Bush (3 percent)

Margaret Thatcher (3 percent)

Jennifer Lopez (2 percent)

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice (2 percent)

The most admired American woman of 1963:

Jacqueline Kennedy (60 percent)

Number of Americans who use chewing tobacco: 6.8 million

Percentage increase over the last 25 years in the number of Americans who use chewing tobacco: 200

Percentage of Americans who use chewing tobacco who suffer from oral lesions: 75

Amount of chewing tobacco consumed by American children and adolescents annually: 26 million containers

Percentage of Americans who feel that “most people on Wall Street would be willing to break the law if they believed they could make a lot of money and get away with it”: 61

Percentage of Americans who feel that “what is good for Wall Street is good for the country”: 40

Percentage of Americans who have a firearm in their home: 39

Percentage of Americans who have at least one rifle, one shotgun, and one handgun in their home: 16

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