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* Average amount of time US patients are allowed to speak before being interrupted by their doctors: 18 seconds
* Percentage who, once interrupted, finish their statement or question: 2%--
ADBUSTERS
* Number of accredited medical schools in the US: 127
* Number with no required courses in nutrition: 95
* Average US physician's course work in nutrition during four years of medical school: 2.5 hours
* Percentage of first-year medical students who consider nutrition to be important to their future careers: 74
* Percentage who, after two years of medical school, still consider nutrition important: 13--
ADBUSTERS
*The average person becomes visibly agitated after waiting 40 seconds for an elevator.--
Harper's Index
A comprehensive survey of the relation between charity and religious beliefs has revealed that:
*Canadians who attend church or religious services weekly are almost three times as likely to donate to the poor overseas as those who never attend.
*Those who attend services either weekly or monthly make up only one-third of the Canadian population, but they account for 52% of those who contribute to overseas relief.
*Those who attend worship regularly are also more likely to volunteer their services to community organizations.--
Ecumenical News International
*Thomas Edison, one of the greatest inventors of all time, was home-schooled by his mother for years. The reason: his teachers and principal thought his probing questions indicated an underdeveloped brain. His father, believing the "evidence" of others, thought his son was partially retarded. Only his mother recognized his true brilliance.--
The Leader
*Winston Churchill had a bad stutter. He wrote out all his speeches and practised them for weeks until he was able to deliver them without hesitation and with stirring energy.--
The Leader
*Albert Einstein was expelled from school at 16. School administrators thought his bored behaviour indicated a serious learning disability.--
The Leader
Dick Shields, a 75-year-old retired coal miner, has had more brushes with death than most people have children. At age 18, Shields was unconscious for a week after his appendix ruptured and he suffered a severe abdominal infection. He was declared dead, but woke up while a nurse was scrubbing his body for his funeral. The startled nurse fainted. Since then, Shields has broken his neck three times, has broken his back, has had a triple bypass, has been attacked by a skin-eating fungus and has had a grapefruit-sized blockage in a blood vessel. He also survived hazardous duty in World War II--including time spent searching for landmines with a knife. He once broke his neck by falling out of bed while recovering from a broken neck. Shields is still active, volunteering at his church's emergency food shelf. "I'd have to say I've been truly blessed," he concludes.--
Evangelical Press News Service
A Harvard survey of 18,000 university undergraduates found that 44% said they had engaged in binge drinking--four to five drinks in a row--in the previous two weeks. The 12 million undergraduates in the US drink 4 billion cans of beer a year. The average student consumes 55 six-packs and spends $446 on alcoholic beverages every year--more than the average student spends on soft drinks and textbooks combined. Studies show that excessive drinking affects not only the bingers but also fellow students. Reports of lost sleep, interrupted studies and sexual assaults are higher on campuses with high drinking rates. US college newspapers receive 35% of their advertising revenue from alcohol-related ads.--
TIME
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