Bits of information gleaned from Harper’s “Index” and “Findings”:
— Number of states where it is currently legal for schools to use corporal punishment on disabled students : 20
— Chances that an American child currently held in an urban juvenile detention center has a mental illness : 2 in 3
— Last year that the U.S. divorce rate was as high as in 2008 : 1970
— Percentage of U.S. women today who are “always, frequently or sometimes” embarrassed by their feet : 57
— Percentage of all U.S. health-care spending that goes to treating conditions caused by obesity : 9
— Biologists concluded that dogs arose, 16,000 years ago, among several hundred tame wolves living south of the Yangtze River, and that these original dogs likely were bred to be eaten.
— East Asians, in observing the faces of Western Caucasians, frequently mistake disgust for anger.
— Circadian-rhythm disruption was reported among binge-drinking hamsters.
— Physicians were afraid to ask the mentally ill to stop smoking.
— … scientists found that lobsters are repelled by the stench of their own dead.
— Titus the Gorilla King died in Rwanda.
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