ShaE
07-27-2006, 11:09 AM
Absolutely love this section of Time- I've posted more than a few things from it before. Bits and pieces but good discussion topics and facts. Just some random ones that caught my eye :
"Marriage is not about love. It's about a love that can bear children"
-Todd Akin, Rep. Congressman from Missouri calling for the House to pass a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. The measure failed.
:disappoin
1.5 Million = Average number of patients injured a year by medication errors of health professionals, inlcluding doctors' bad handwriting.
3.5 Billion = Annual cost of treating those drug-related injuries.
45% = Percentage of the $420 Million charged to gov't issued credit cards by Homeland Security staff in the wake of Katrina and Rita, that was not authorized in advance ( according to a gov't audit).
1= Number of bills vetoed by George Bush, the fewest of any President since James Garfield, who served for only four months in 1881 and vetoed none.
635 = Number of vetoes by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the most- by more than 50%- of any President.
"Marriage is not about love. It's about a love that can bear children"
-Todd Akin, Rep. Congressman from Missouri calling for the House to pass a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. The measure failed.
:disappoin
1.5 Million = Average number of patients injured a year by medication errors of health professionals, inlcluding doctors' bad handwriting.
3.5 Billion = Annual cost of treating those drug-related injuries.
45% = Percentage of the $420 Million charged to gov't issued credit cards by Homeland Security staff in the wake of Katrina and Rita, that was not authorized in advance ( according to a gov't audit).
1= Number of bills vetoed by George Bush, the fewest of any President since James Garfield, who served for only four months in 1881 and vetoed none.
635 = Number of vetoes by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the most- by more than 50%- of any President.