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Article #5186ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS - with actual posted statistics
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 00:00
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Do you want to see statistics on -- Air Pollution, Garbage, Nuclear
Tests, and other environmental related statistics and facts ? Then
go to the Vital U.S. Statistics and Facts Home page at
http://www.instantech.com/users/1260/index.htm
Here is a sample:
Air Pollution:
About 64,000 people in the 239 surveyed areas died
prematurely each year of heart and lung ailments caused
by particle air pollution. That compares with 29,245
deaths in those areas from auto accidents and 18,683
homicides. In the most polluted cites, lives are
shortened by an average of one to two years.
10 Most Expensive Disasters In Billions
1. Hurricane Andrew, 1992 $ 15.5
2. Northridge, Calif., earthquake, 1994 $ 12.5
3. Hurricane Hugo, 1989 $ 4.2
4. Hurricane Opal, 1995 $ 2.1
5. 20-state winter storm, 1993 $ 1.8
6. Oakland, Calif., fire, 1991 $ 1.7
7. Hurricane Fran, 1996 $ 1.6
8. Hurricane Iniki, Hawaii, 1992 $ 1.6
9. Flooding, Texas, N.M., 1995 $ 1.1
10. Loma Prieta, Calif., earthquake, 1989 $ 0.96
You will also see statistics and facts on a huge range of subjects like --
The U.S. economy, national debt, state budgets, tax rates, crime,
juvenile crime, drugs, drug trafficking, prison population, death
penalty, Aids, cancer, education, Medicare, gender issues, population,
teen pregnancy, illegal immigration, smoking, religion, sex statistics,
and even the various costs of the O.J. trial. All this and much
more in summary form. There are over 50 links to my page and other
factual web pages, which includes the presidential and congressional
candidates and their stance on various issues.
This is not an advertisement for a product.
Feel free to download and save the web page. It will be summarized
even more that it is now in the near future. It does take about
a minute to download, but there is not any graphics so once you
downloaded it will instantansly download in future visits.
Read the CLINTON and GOP REPORT CARD while the page downloads.
Note : This web page can also be found from the search engine
ALTA VISTA. Just type >> " VITAL U.S. STATISTICS " <<
( include the quotation marks ) and it should be the
first choice.
ALTA VISTA can be found in Netscape's net search. Just scroll
down until you find the search engine ALTA VISTA.
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