Confinado (en cuello-blanco)

In Fact II

• On average, countries that win the World Cup add 0.7 per cent to their economic growth [ABN AMRO]. Ni modo, CONACYT.
• There have been more translations of Kant into Persian over the last decade than into any other language [New Republic, 1st June 2006]. Ya era hora; sigue el nahuaxilango.
• Europe's merchant ships emit around a third more carbon than aircraft do [The Economist, 10th June 2006]. Fire those U-boats!
• Serbia produces almost a third of the world's raspberries [US Department of Agriculture]. ¿Y Montenegro?
• The three most corrupt US states, measured by convictions, are Alaska, Mississippi and Louisiana. The least corrupt are Colorado, Wisconsin and Nebraska [Global Corruption Report 2005]. Afortunadamente el DC no cuenta.
• Mothers, on average, spent the same time on childcare in 2003 as they had done in 1965 [The Economist, 15th April 2006]. Britney constata.
• The Da Vinci Code is the bestselling book in French history. A quarter of the population is estimated to have read it [Business Week, 17th May 2006]. Por encima de la Constitución.

posted by Roberto A. Juarez-Garza @ 7:38:00 p.m.