Numbers in the news.1,307 Distance, in feet, that a Missouri tornado carried Matt Suter, 17, in March. Suter survived. SOURCE: USA TODAY USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. 30 Number of minutes the average American spends preparing dinner every evening, down from 2.5 hours in the 1960s. SOURCE: THE NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of TIME5 250 Age, in years, of a giant tortoise that died at a Calcutta zoo in March. He was said to have been the world's oldest animal. SOURCE: REUTERS 200 million Estimated number of domesticated do·mes·ti·cate tr.v. do·mes·ti·cat·ed, do·mes·ti·cat·ing, do·mes·ti·cates 1. To cause to feel comfortable at home; make domestic. 2. To adopt or make fit for domestic use or life. 3. a. fowl, that have died of avian flu avian flu: see influenza. or been killed to stop its spread. [See p. 16.] SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES 5% Amount of tax China has imposed on disposable wooden chopsticks in an effort to conserve timber. SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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