Numbers in the news.52% Percentage of Americans surveyed who said they had "re-gifted" presents or might do so in the future, SOURCE: REUTERS 70,000 Approximate number of videos that are uploaded to YouTube every day. SOURCE: TIME 11% Percentage of teens who wear a wristwatch. For people under 25, watches are being replaced by cell. phones and other devices that tell the time. 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. 1 billion+ Number of people in the world who get water for drinking, cooking, and bathing from sources contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. with human and animal waste. 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 TIMES $167 billion Amount that migrant workers A migrant worker is someone who regularly works away from home, if they even have a home.[] Although the United Nations' use of this term overlaps with 'foreign worker', the use of the term within the United States is more specific. worldwide sent to their home countries in 2005. About 85 percent goes to pay the daily bills of family Left behind, with very little left for savings and investment. SOURCE: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL |
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