This intriguing little book gives
statistics on what, on/in an
average day at the end of the 1980s, Americans of various
ages, classes, types, origins, races, sexes, sexual orientations, occupations and the like, actually do, experience, buy, sell, combine, separate, create, publish, use (and on and on).
For instance, how many books are published each day? How many books in Braille are put out? On an average day, how much is spent by the federal government on education; how much on defense? How much on legislators by defense contractors'' lobbyists?
How much money is spent on
medical care, at this time, per day? And of that, how much is spent for hospitals, doctors, drugs and medical supplies, or nursing homes? How much money is spent on over-the-counter drugs, and these by categories, such as laxatives or pain relievers?
How many people ate out on an average day? And of these, how many ate at a McDonald''s retaurant? And how many of those who ate at McDoanald''s were under 6 years of age?
How many rapes, murder, arsons,anti-Semitic hate crimes, and anti-gay assaults are committed on an average day in America? How many forest fires are there? How many acres do they burn? How many lost children are there? And to whom?
All interesting questions, are they not? And the answers to these and many others, along with a list of sources for these
statistics (in the back of the book), can be found in here.