FORD AND ITS MODERN 1912 TECHNOLOGY
I was at the library last night reading Harper's magazine. If you're not familiar, in each issue, they have something called Harper's Index, where they post a list of numbers, stats and figures culled from various news sources. (They cite the sources at the end of the issue). Anyway, here are some interesting figures from the Index in the most recent issue of the magazine

-Number of times Democrat Howard Dean mentioned Iraq in announcing his candicacy for president this year: 0

-Amount Pat Robertson* has invested in Liberian gold mining: $8,000,000

-Number of times he cited the country's leaders* as wrong Christians on his TV show while President Bush was in Africa: 3

-Maximum number of miles that Ford's most fuel efficient 2003 car can drive on a gallon of gas: 36

-Maximum number its 1912 Model T could: 35

-Percentage of Americans in June who favored US military action to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons: 56

-Percentage in July who disapproved of the United States waging preemptive attacks on any country: 58



*-For more info on Robertson's opinion of disgraced Liberian dictator, former warlord and indicted war criminal Charles Taylor, click here.